Last night at around 1am, I got up to go use the bathroom. I opened up the door and closed it, but before I got down to my business I noticed some crunching noises outside the bathroom window. I live on the first floor, so my first thought was "someones walking around in the back of our dorms, probably a thief or peeping tom" . But as I stood there for a little while analyzing the sound in my head, I noticed that the sound never drifted closer or farther. I thought that this was peculiar because people don't walk in place. So I proceeded to do my business and flushed the toilet, hoping the noise would scare off whatever it was outside. But as the swooshing from the toilet subsided, the crunching noises stayed the same. I knew that if I raised the curtain and looked out the window, whatever it was outside would see me and probably react in a negative manner. So I turned off the lights and opened up the door, but instead of walking out, I remained in the now pitch dark bathroom. I figured the darkness would give me a bit of camouflage from whoever was outside. I stepped to the window and raised the curtain a little so I could peek outside. I surveyed the area and I couldn't see a thing; looked both left and right. I thought that this was weird because the crunching noise seemed to come from right outside my window. I took one last look, when all of a sudden a good sized deer walked out from the bushes about 5 feet in front of my window. Imagine my wonder at being this close to an animal that I usually only see when I'm swerving around it in my car. This animal did not notice (or maybe it just didn't care about me) my presence and continued to go about its business biting away at the berries on the bush. I stood there observing the deer for a little while, until I realized that if one of my roommates walked into the bathroom, it would have been one of those awkward turtle moments, so I took a final look and walked away. When I climbed into bed that night, I felt relived that it wasn't a thief outside my window, yet I also felt guilty because I'm imposing on the deer's living spaces. I'm thinking about hanging a salty treat out on that bush for the deer to munch on, yet that might backfire, because I don't want to wake up to an entire herd of deer waiting outside my bathroom window.
As for my life outside the bathroom, everythings going alright. My classes aren't as hard as I thought and I've made a few new friends. Theres been a few crazy stuff that's happened here at the dorms, but that's a story for some other time. Till next time,
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