An Ordinary Day

“An Ordinary Day”
By Bob Perks

Ordinary Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)

adjective...characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, fair, familiar, garden, garden variety, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, normal, pedestrian, plain, plain Jane, plastic, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, simple, so-so, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unpretentious, unremarkable, usual, vanilla, workaday.

Ordinary. It just sounded so plain. Someone said it was just "an ordinary day."

I couldn't for the life of me believe that any day could be ordinary. But then I began to think about how my life has often times gone out of control. I thought about how many times I was so busy that I couldn't keep up with things.

"Having a bad day?" someone would ask of me.

"Yes, I am indeed!" I'd reply.

So, if I couldn't possibly think of any day being ordinary, how could I then, at times, think of a day being bad?

I don't want to think of anything being just ordinary. It sounds as if I'm bored. How could I be bored with life?

I'm not. But, I will admit that after all that's happened recently, an ordinary day almost now sounds welcoming. Fresh. New. Different.

A day that begins slowly and ends slowly would be just fine. A day of comfortable temperatures mixed with just enough sun and clouds to make it right. A day that begins and ends with a sigh. A kiss on the cheek from the sun in the late morning as I lie in bed and a face full of moonlight as I stand in the back yard that night.

An ordinary day.

To awaken to the distant call of early birds in search of breakfast and to fall back to sleep at the end of the day with a chorus of crickets, led by a maestro Owl's "whooo" would make it simply wonderful.

To have no phone calls interrupting, no fax machines grinding, no cell phone blaring some annoying favorite tune. And while I'm at it, no horns honking, car alarms screaming, engines racing, sirens calling or door bells ringing.

Add to it the smell of fresh baked anything within arms reach of just sitting there in my favorite chair. Assure me that every favorite old time black and white movie I ever loved would be on TV whenever I wanted them to be.

Include sweet dream memories when I slip off to take a nap at 10, 2, and 4.

Make sure that no one knows just where I am, at that very moment, when they need, just must, talk to me right away.

Schedule no unexpected emergencies I wouldn't really be prepared for anyway.

Expect nothing from me and get it.

Call out my name and only hear the echo of your voice as if returning the call, "He's not available!"

An ordinary day? Why not? But wait! Let's go all out and ask for and extra-ordinary day!

A day like that would be extraordinary on "An Ordinary Day!"

"I believe in you!"
Bob Perks

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