Today is my roommate's birthday. And according to a time-honored tradition, guess what happened last night at about 12:00? Allow me to explain.
It is perfectly natural to celebrate birthdays with much excitement. Imagine how this is compounded when you are in college and living with 5 other crazy single girls who're also in college. Also (perhaps you may have picked up on this trend), loopiness tends to increase exponentially as people become more sleepy. Thus, as the minutes tick on, the level of hilarity rises. Combine this with college girls celebrating enthusiastically. What do you get?
After apartment prayer last night, Birthday Girl was tired and feeling ever so slightly under the weather so she headed on in to bed. I quietly plotted with another roommate to jump on her as soon as it was her birthday (12:00) provided she was still awake. At 5 minutes 'til, my accomplice came into my bedroom to wait and at the penultimate minute we sneaked down the hall on tip-toes trying to stifle our giggles. At the doorway into Birthday Girl's bedroom we dashed inside - only to see her kneeling on her bed saying prayers. Oops. My accomplice tripped over me in her haste to retreat and we regrouped in the hall in silent fits of laughter as we heard Birthday Girl trying not to laugh as well. A minute later she was done and we ran in and amidst much guffawing yelled our birthday wishes.
The element of surprise may have been lost somewhere in there, but let's face it. That could not have been any better. At least we didn't jump on her and yell before we realized what was going on!
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