mardi 12 avril 2011

Slippery floor

I'm walking on the docks of Hong Kong. The sky dusk is showing a pleasant dark blue sunset colour. Something is bothering me though. For some reason, the floor is extremely slippery and I find myself slowly dragged towards the edge by the sea despite struggling to stay still. Eventually I fall off the edge but not quite: I managed to get a hang on a metal ring that is the size of a basketball. My feet are a few inches away from the water, and I'm looking desperately for help around me.

lundi 28 février 2011

Jumpy spider

I'm running away from a normal-sized black furry spider. It is keeping up with my speed easily. I end up in the kitchen, which is a narrow 4 square meters room. I put both my hand on both side of the wall and push myself up. I figure it couldn't get to me at this height. Quite the contrary, it jumps on my ass like a grasshopper. I wake up.

At the takeaway

I'm working at China Express, and strangely, there's quite a few grown-up customers for an afternoon (usually they are teens). I'm carrying a meal to one of them. He says he wants hot sauce, so I grab a bottle on the shelf right behind me. The cap is gone for some reason.
Why did anyone place it there in the first place?

Turning around, the customer seems to have disappeared. I look around and notice he's behind my back, grabbing all the available bottles of hot sauce from the shelf.
My younger sister Ariane is also there, although it is not clear why. She's playing with a baby bunny that looks a lot like Lucky.
Suddenly the animal runs towards the way out. How the hell did she let it go? I yell at her, then we hurry as fast as possible to the exit. We chase the rabbit amids the traffic mayhem, two steps away from a road accident. Finally I managed to catch it. I'm holding it tightly in my arms like a baby so it doesn't happen again. Waking up.

Au traiteur: un client particulier, ma soeur et un bébé lapin…
Je suis en train de travailler à China Express et il y a bizarrement pas mal de clients adultes pour un après-midi. Je porte une commande vers un client. Celui-ci veut de la sauce pimenté. Je vais en prendre une bouteille sur l’étagère mais celle-ci est déjà ouverte.
Pourquoi quelqu’un l’a déposé là d’abord?
En me retournant, ce client a disparu. Je regarde alors autour de moi, et remarque qu’il est derrière moi, en train de prendre toutes les sauces de l’étagère.
Ma soeur Ariane est la aussi mais c’est pas clair pourquoi. Elle joue avec un bébé lapin, qui ressemble à Lucky.
Tout à coup l’animal court vers la sortie. Putin comment elle a fait pour le lâcher?
J’engueule Ariane. Moi et ma soeur nous précipitons aussitôt vers la sortie pour le rattraper sous le regard des clients. Lucky est en train de courir au milieu de la route.
Après une brève course-poursuite où nous avons frôlé l’accident de route j’ai enfin réussi à l’attraper. Je le tiens fermement entre mes bras comme un bébé pour éviter que ça ne se reproduise. Réveil