sleepy
This Diwali holidays I went to Mangalore with my dad by train, we stayed there at a hotel called ’Abhimaan residency’. I had gone there to spend some time with my old apartment friends. I lived in Mangalore for a long period of time. I was a student of class 1 of st. jerosa’s when I started living there and when we moved from there I had completed my 4th standard. I lived in an apartment named ‘vrindavan’ and had made great friends there. So, to see them I went to Mangalore after a non- communicative gap of 2 years almost.
The day we reached Mangalore, I was totally exhausted but still refused to go to sleep and didn’t rest all afternoon. Later that evening I visited my friend and came back to the hotel. My dad had called his colleague over and they said that they would go downstairs to the restaurant and have their dinner and that I should have food in the room. I was relieved not to go down with them as I was too tired.
I switched on the TV and ordered food. The food was served soon and I got into bed without the intention to sleep but to watch TV .I without knowledge drifted to my sleep. I had not only locked the door with the key but also latched it. I was awoken from a call by my dad at around 12: oo p.m and I had drifted to sleep by 9:45 p.m. I didn’t notice the time, answered the call and opened the door drowsy eyed. Dad looked at me wide eyed. Thoroughly drowsy, the next thing I did was not even waiting for my dad to enter but to retire to bed. Dad saw that and asked me to sleep well and retired himself.
In the morning, I awoke and my dad was on the net working. I asked him about the previous night and what he had for dinner. Then, my dad burst out laughing. I was bewildered and asked him the reason as to why he laughed and he told me about my deep sleep incident.
Actually, my dad had arrived shortly after I slept by 10:30p.m and had knocked. Learning that I may not be able to hear him, he called me continuously on my mobile and that I had not come to know. He also asked people from the reception to keep calling the room landline, no effect still. Dad could hear the noise of the TV outside.
He asked the hotel authorities to release the master key and they agreed with great difficulty. When they tried to open with the master key they couldn’t then they realized that I had latched the door.
The bellboys woke the next-door guests and started to walk on the ledge to try thrusting open the window by a cuttingplier, after many tries unsuccessful they kept trying. All things at once dad calling, hotel authorities ringing, bellboys trying to open the window and a person knocking the door but I still slept soundly.
Carrying on all these processes my dad was tired and sat outside on the stairs hoping me to open the door. He was afraid that I might have got dehydrated and slipped to sleep and that I may not wake until medical attention was provided.
Although when all these thoughts were running inside my dad’s mind I got up with a jerk by the phones ringing and then coming to know of my dad’s arrival I opened the door and promptly slept. all the activities that had taken place outside for the past 2 hours was unknown to me and when my dad told me all this, I was embarrassed and couldn’t believe it and after that incident my dad didn’t scold me or say anything it was treated as a joke but all the hotel authorities goggled at me as if I was a museum piece whenever I passed them, but one cannot blame them after all they wanted to know who was the reason for the previous night’s chaos. I get embarrassed whenever one reminds me of this incident.
This was an unforgettable incident and I swore never to stay in that hotel again and my teases me saying that I swore not to stay at the hotel but not that any thing else like this would occur. but as they say” all’s well that ends well”. 
