Under the Bed

After my last blog entry, I began to get the idea to look under my bed to see what was underneath.

I did not know what to expect, but I already seemed to be in enough trouble as is. So on Sunday night, September 21, I started to look under my bed.

The first thing that I noticed was  a green plastic garbage bag. I did not think that much of importance was in there. But I was not prepared for the shock that soon faced me.

There were mainly papers in the bag, but what shocked me most was their extreme unimportance.

On opening the bag, the first thing that I saw was the guide booklet on how to do my provincial income tax return for 2003. In the same bag, there were a few phone and hydro bills going as far back as 1999 and even 1998.

So why was I saving this useless junk? To understand the situation, we must go back to the summer of 2004, when I first met Ouija.

In August 2004, they were doing a renovation of my apartment, which included replacing part of my bedroom floor. In order for them to do this, it was necessary to move a lot of stuff out of their way. So the papers, which had been on top of a small desk, were placed in a green garbage bag which was then stuffed under my bed for the time being. The Guide to doing the tax return for 2003 had been used within a couple of months of the period when the renovations began.

After getting rid of most of the contents of this bag of junk, I continued to look for more stuff under the bed over the next few days. I found a bag full of electric lights and extension cords, which were the remains of the lights that had been hung up over the plants in the kitchen prior to the 2004 renovations. Then I found some gardening stuff which had been removed from the kitchen when the renovation had been done in the kitchen. I was then able to extract an Adler electric typewriter from under the bed and put it in the hall of the apartment building.

              (to be continued)