Somnolent Episode

It happened just before the Christmas vacation. A junior walked into his Economics 1 class at nine o'clock; he opened his notebook, took out his fountain pen and promptly fell asleep. At the end of the period he was still sleeping and seemed so comfortable that when another Economics 1 class came into the room at 10:15 the students tip-toed to their seats in order not to disturb him. At 11:10, just before the class ended, the student awoke. The material was the same that he had been hearing when he dozed off, but there seemed to be something radically different about the faces around him; none of them were the ones he was accustomed to seeing. When someone called his attention to the fact that he had slept through two classes, his explanation was a classic one of four words. "I was just tired," he said, and picked up his note-book to shuffle off to his 11:15 class.