October- "You know"

“You know, I’ve had a dream the other day…”

“Mm.”

“…and now I can’t remember what it was about …”

“Oh, I’ve had lots of those before.”

“Your sarcasm gives off radiation levels worthy of a nuclear warning sign. Anyway, I can’t stop thinking about it because I’m getting the nagging feeling that it’s important…”

“I go through life with a nagging feeling that something’s important.”

“So that’s what’s up with your unusually sunny disposition.”

“Who’s sarcastic now?”

“Mf. Like to like. You’ve been nagged for 18 years?”

“Yeah, go figure, doesn’t it?”

“In your case, sure.”

“Hey!”

Zach smiled to himself even though there was really nothing funny about the current topic especially since, according to a survey data he’d found in psychology text, most people get the sense that they were “missing something” at least part of the time. Given that the sample was accurate and reliable, which was always a formidable question in psychology (and which was also a point that Zach would loath to bring up in front of Mike), that would mean that either most people were suffering some sort of mild anxiety disorder or that there were really major things out there that no one was picking up that everyone instinctively felt they should be picking up. Which was always a possibility.

Mike, in the mean time, was getting bored because there was, after all, only so much you could do by yourself when you were stuck in the middle of a power outage, in the middle of the night, and most of them involved a bit of banging about. Since half of the room was unconscious and 75% of it was quiet, he amused himself by counting in powers of two and seeing how far he could go, lost interest when he noticed a pattern that rendered the whole exercise lacking-in-challenge, before trying to see if he could calculate the endless decimal places of pi by doing infinite sums series.