A midnight mistake

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So @xFiacre just brought this to mind in our conversation about wardrobes and outside toilets. Many years ago, a friend told me this story. She was staying with some friends who had moved house not long before. She was in bed, though not yet asleep, when suddenly her bedroom door opened and the teenage son walked in. Nervously she sat up in bed wondering what was going to happen. Completely ignoring her, the boy walked up to the bedside cabinet, opened the drawer, and peed into it. He then closed the drawer and walked out again. She subsequently found out that the position of the rooms in the new house meant that the door to her bedroom was in the same position relative to the boy’s bedroom that the bathroom had been in their old house. He had sleep-walked to the ‘bathroom’ and imagined that opening the drawer was the equivalent of lifting the toilet lid. Luckily my friend was quite understanding because she herself was a sleep-walker! She had annoyed the gardeners at her college by sleep-walking into the gardens and doing some ‘weeding’ at night, waking up in the morning with muddy feet and bits of plants in her bed. I don't have a suitable picture for this so here's a 'wandering' image All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2025.