Jeremy did it again!

Did you ever get up in the middle of the night, look at the clock wrong, thinking it was morning and time to get up?  Yesterday Jeremy called and told me that he had set his alarm earlier than usual because he wanted to be able to get a full hour at the gym before going to work.  He woke up, looked at his clock, and thought he had overslept half an hour.  He got right up, dressed, and headed for the gym.  On the way there he discovered that it was not yet 3:00 AM!!!! 

It reminded us of his junior high years.  He used to swim for a winter league that had meets on weekends, sometimes at far away places.  The night before one such meet was bitterly cold and and very windy.  Our big farmhouse felt like a sieve.  We decided it would be fun to all sleep in the family room where it was nice and warm.  Before going to sleep, Jeremy reminded me that he and Dick needed to be woken up really early to leave for the swim meet.  

In the middle of the night, Jeremy suddenly got out of his sleeping bag, stepped over people to walk to the kitchen to look at the clock, came back through the family room, and went into the bathroom right next door.  I looked at my watch and it was something like 1:30 AM.  He was in the bathroom being loud like he was mad, and the next thing I knew he was taking a shower!!  After a while he came out of the bathroom and said, "MOM!  Why didn't you get me up???  Why isn't Dad up yet?"  I whispered loudly,  "Jeremy, be quiet!  It's not even 2:00 yet!"  Apparently in the dark, 1:30 had looked like it was a few minutes after six!  So a very clean boy got back into his sleeping bag for a few more hours of sleep, and the rest of us tried to forgive him as we did the same!