Only a Category 1, and maybe Mary Poppins at that.

Aimee: I had a mild night terror last night.

Bryan: Yeah, you sat up and gasped.

Aimee: Yeah. It wasn’t too bad.

Bryan: Do you remember it?

Aimee: It was an open umbrella coming down on me.

Bryan: An umbrella?

Aimee: Yeah. A pink one.

Bryan: [pause.] You were attacked by a pink parasol.

Aimee: Yeah.

Bryan: [pause.] There are worse things.

This article has 19 comments

  1. Tree

    Oh my! Now that is wacky!

  2. Anonymous

    that’s actually pretty funny. 😉

  3. joansy

    I hope you figure out the story behind that one!

  4. Sarah

    Freaky.

  5. tmrperry

    Hagrid’s umbrella!!! You’ve got Harry Potter on the brain!!!

  6. aimee / greeblemonkey

    TERI! That is TOTALLY IT! LOL. Since I am rereading book 1. 🙂

  7. Sizzle

    a pink parasol, ha ha.

  8. Anonymous

    Sorry you had one – but glad it was mild… and at least it was funny!

  9. ali

    damn rihanna…

    you can stand under my umbrella…ella…ella…eh…eh..

  10. aimee / greeblemonkey

    I know Samantha! I broke my streak!

  11. binkytown

    Too funny!

  12. samantha Jo Campen

    Bryan is cute:-)

    Glad it wasn’t too scary, but sorry you had one. Hope things stay happy in the night time!

  13. Karen

    If you dream of it again, imagine it’s marshmallow so if it lands you can eat it and it will be gone forever!

  14. Alpha DogMa

    When you get these night terrors do you suddenly sit up in bed like on that show with the Arquette actress who plays a psychic? Cos that woman drives me crazy and I can’t figure out why her husband doesn’t insist on twin beds.

    I’m pretty sure that regardless of colour it would hurt to be whacked by either an umbrella or a parasol. So here’s hoping you sleep better tonight.

  15. aimee / greeblemonkey

    AlphaDogma… a lot of times I don’t remember them actually, I just know I feel really really scared in the morning and REALLY REALLY tired.

    Many times, Bryan is the one that witnesses them and tells me about them in the morning…

    He and I kind of came up with a category system like hurricanes…

    Category 1… Mild, I will sit up and gasp maybe (sounds like that Medium show) and then lay back and settle right back down

    Category 3… More scared… will do some thrashing, loud talking, heavy breathing, it will go on for 5 minutes or so…

    Category 5… Scared out of my fucking mind… up in bed, possibly up out of bed, flailing, punching, seeing people or things over top me, screaming my head off, hyperventilating, goes on and on, won’t settle down…

    During some category 5’s I have punched Bryan before. So, yeah, there was a time when he was sleeping in the guest room downstairs.

  16. Sarah

    Whew. Amazing stuff.

  17. sue

    I immediately thought of the show “Medium”, too. I do that sometimes – most notably when the fire alarm goes off in the middle of the night. For no. reason. Hubs says he doesn’t even hear the alarm, just my gasp…now, a pink umbrella? Too funny.

  18. Alpha DogMa

    WOW.
    Just wow.

  19. g-man

    Funny post. Glad it was not any worse.

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