Insomnia

3.45am
She is woken with a shock by the loud noise of a car alarm. Sustained, unbroken, the car horn blares and blares and blares without end.

3.50am
Lying awake, unable to ignore the annoying noise. Wonders how long before the battery is drained. "Please, please let it be soon."

4.07am
Great battery. Noise still strong and steady. She thinks:
"Might just have to kill myself."
and wonders why the car's owner doesn't DO something.

4.16am
Attempting zen. Tells herself to embrace the noise; let it to fall back into the landscape of the night's usual sounds and lull her off to sleep.

4.19am
FAIL. The noise pushes through the night, on a bee-line to her ears.

4.28am
"Am ready to go down and take to the car with a crowbar," she thinks.
"Lucky I don't own a crow bar."

4.43 am
Wondering why she doesn't have the number for the local police stuck to her fridge like sensible people do. She only knows 000, but this isn't technically an emergency. Anyway, someone else will have surely called them by now.

5.21am
Deleriously tired. Perhaps the wind is blowing the noise in another direction. Is sure she'll fall asleep soon -- eventually --"

8.44 am
She makes a phone call: "I'm going to be late for work. Got a flat battery."