Flatmates' Thanksgiving

All I wanted was some damned toast for breakfast. I stepped into an empty kitchen this morning, and it felt safe. My flatmate Dean usually turns the rock'n'roll on as soon as he's awake, but no music was coming from his room, so I put four slices of wheat into the toaster.

While the bread browned, Robert came out of his room and we traded a few sentences about our respective Thanksgivings yesterday. At the sound of people talking, of course, Dean poked his head out of his room.

Almost immediately, Dean asked what we were each doing at around 6:00 tonight, because he wants to cook a dinner for us. "It's what I do," he said, which is something he often says.

My toast was cold before I'd escaped the kitchen, and saying no was politically not an option, so I'm stuck at my second consecutive Thanksgiving dinner tonight at 6:00. You have to be a little sociable with flatmates, I think, and this will pay my dues for several weeks.

The obligation awaits me in an hour, and I do seriously hate obligations. Most people, I think, would enjoy a free dinner, but a day alone is a good day for me. I hate being sociable, and I'm looking forward to this flatmates' Thanksgiving being over.

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