By Jim Hagarty
2014
This morning everyone had showered and left the house. To work, to school. I wandered into the bathroom for my own shower. I closed the bathroom door but didn’t lock it. Why would I? I was alone.
So I was happily showering away when something strange happened. The water went suddenly cold. Then almost as quickly, became hot again. A few seconds later, it did it again. No one else in the house to turn on a hot water tap and leave me with only cold. Or was there? I wished I had locked the door.
I tried to think of some other explanation for hot-cold-hot-cold-hot water from the shower head. The only thing I could think of was the possibility that the earlier showers had maybe depleted the hot water tank. Still, I knew if there was no hot water left it would first turn very mild and then eventually steadily cold.
Screwing up some courage, I left the bathroom and quietly crept upstairs. I thought of yelling out but didn’t want to hear anyone yelling back. I looked everywhere. Nobody there.
Darned boogeyman again, I guess. Every now and then he likes to put in an appearance, just to remind me he’s not really ever going to leave me alone.
I hate that guy.
