As I age I find sometimes my mind flips back to a memory and I've no idea why that particular memory popped into my head.
This morning as I was sitting on the side of the bed and remembered back when we were first married my wife was an early riser and I was more inclined to sleep, sometimes dead to the world. My wife learned a no-fail way to get me up: insert a glycerine suppository up my bottom as deep as her KY or Vaseline enhanced second finger could place it. The immediate shock of being invaded would get my attention and by the time I'd had a stretch any inclination to slip back to sleep was derailed by the glycerine doing what the suppository was intended to do. The message became increasingly clear and necessary .... get up!
Some mornings, when not wanting to wait for a suppository to work, she'd deliver a wake up call via a four ounce rectal bulb syringe loaded with especially sudsy enema or, more likely, a Fleet injected with as firm/rapid a squeeze as she was able. Either sort of liquid surprise was enough to jolt me awake and soon convince me to get up.
Occasionally when feeling particularly devilish she might after suppository insertion, or enema injection, smack my bottom with her hand about 10 times. "This should get your attention if the suppository/enema doesn't!"
The enema bulb didn't happen often but in her bedside table drawer was a jar of suppositories and if not a Fleet in its box they were never far away in the bathroom cupboard.
I wonder if others have had, or applied, similar wake-up calls?