Friday, April 3, 2009

Stupid Earbuds

As a college student sleeping is only ever important to me in to morning when I realize that last night I forgot what I learned yesterday morning: I need sleep.
What this amounts to is a lot rationalizing while laying in bed that I will be able to continue laying there if I just speed up the rest of my morning.
"Yea, I'll take a fast shower.. getting dressed doesn't take long.. neither does packing my backpack.. do I know where my shoes are? Yes.. I do.. excellent.."
After doing this for awhile I know exactly how long I can spend doing any given morning activity in order to make it to the bus without being in a rush, however I'm always in a rush. Why? Because I never take into account my earbuds.
You know what I'm talking about, you take them off the night before, wrap em up in a neat little circle, or just drop them in your desk or backpack. When you find them the next morning though: Cluster Fuck.
How does this happen? I've never seen such a tangled mess arise out of nothing more than sitting in place all night. It takes me like 3 minutes, 3 precious minutes, to untangle this catastrophe. I dont have time for that nonsense and its simply unreasonable to wait til im on the bus to have music blasting against the walls of my ear drums.
That's the situation provided there weren't any other wire's present within a 3 foot radius of your earbuds. If there were: Super Cluster Fuck. Because earbuds split from a single wire to two thinner ones they have the abilty to latch onto, and intertwine themselves into all other surrounding wires, including your cell phone charger, laptop charger, lamp, video game controllers, extension cords, tv, and whatever else you have plugged into the power strip, plugged into the 2nd power strip plugged into the wall.
The only thing I can even compare to this, mind of their own self snagging madness, is fishing line. Anyone who has ever been fishing, knows what I mean. In fact I'm certain that if I left my fishing pole in the same room as my earbuds overnight I would wake up to find that the two had not only tangled themselves together, but had also found my bike and gotten themselves stuck in the chains: Super Apocolyptic World Ending Cluster Fuck.
I guess if I just went to bed earlier I could wake up with enough time to avoid this disaster, unfortunately its well past noon as it is and I cant even remember what I had for breakfast, much less what I was thinking when I woke up.