A Very Boring Sleep Story | The Drawer Of Spoons

A gripping non-adventure into the mundane. One drawer. Many spoons. Nothing changes, and that's kind of the point. For those nights when excitement is the enemy and mild observation of cutlery is all you need to drift off.

Transcript

Tonight's journey will take you nowhere.

And in that nowhere,

There is a drawer.

Inside,

Spoons.

So many spoons.

More than any household realistically needs.

But no one ever throws a spoon out.

There are teaspoons.

There are dessert spoons.

And then the soup spoon.

Enormous,

Self-important.

It knows it's technically part of the set,

But emotionally it's distant.

You pick up a spoon,

It's medium cold.

Neutral in all possible ways.

You briefly consider your reflection in its shiny bowl.

You look a bit like a stretched out potato,

But a dignified one.

You place it back slightly off-kilter,

A quiet act of chaos.

The other spoons feel the shift.

They say nothing,

But they know.

There's one spoon that looks slightly different.

No one knows where it came from.

It might be from a holiday rental,

Or from the void.

Who knows?

Everyone has a rogue spoon.

This one just appeared,

And now it lives here,

Quietly resented by the original set.

You begin to count the spoons,

1,

2,

3,

4,

5,

6,

No,

Maybe 7,

It doesn't matter.

You start again,

1,

2,

3,

4,

5,

6,

7,

8,

9,

10,

11,

12,

13,

14,

15,

16,

17,

18,

19,

20,

You're not even halfway through and your brain starts buffering.

Were you at 12?

Or just thinking about the number 12?

Either way,

The spoons remain.

So many.

Too many.

You consider giving them names,

But immediately regret it.

But sleep gently interrupts.

You never find out how many spoons there were.

You give up.

It's peaceful.

And now,

So too do you lie down.

You are the spoon.

The drawer is life.

Nothing more will happen,

And that's okay.

Sleep well.

Reviews

A very clever story to clear my mind. Thank you.😊

Absolutely delightful! A bit too short to get me to sleep, but it made me smile and laugh the whole way through, and that’s a mighty fine way to start the sleep journey. Thanks!

I was expecting it to be just a very boring story but u actually found it hilarious! I really like it and I found that it helped calm my mind for bed. Thanks!

I love this story of the spoons. Spoons are so interesting and so many people have a love affair with them. I know that my love and I have a love affair of spoons. We have an assortment of all kinds of spoons. Tiny little wooden spoons that I’ve collected along my travels all over the world . We have airline spoons that we’ve collected and then we have the spoons that go with our cutlery set. And we definitely have a rogue spoon. We love spoons. I’m always captivated by a spoon in the store so thank you for bringing the storey to light.
however, I did see the meaning of the story. I often start my mornings with a mundane attitude of day and a day out. I feed the animals. I take care of them. I take them for a walk, but after hearing this, I am shifting my mindset and looking at it as a gift to be able to take care of these animals that we have two dogs and a kitty. I’m grateful that we learned from them that we can love them that they love us and that we have them in our lives and that we are able to take care of them always and feed them extremely well so they are healthy.
thank you Alicia 🫶🏻🩷🫶🏻

Brilliant!🤩 Thanks so much. I smiled all the way through this. I have a rogue spoon in my drawer. When my daughter was about six she went to school with a spoon and a yoghurt in her pack lunch and came back with a different spoon. That was nearly 20 years ago and the different rogue spoon is still in our drawer!!🤣