Wide Awake
I receive a rude awakening in the middle of the night in the form of an angry ballet-flat to the side of my somnolent face!
‘Why you are sleeping, lazy slave? Why you are not being wide awake and ready to clean the feet of your customers? Shine my shoe! Lick!’
‘Aoow!... Y…yes m…mistress! At once, m…mistress. Pray forgive me, mistress!’
I seek to make amends by vigorously licking the decorative bow on the front of the young woman’s outstretched ballet-flat. One thing’s for sure – thanks to this late-night customer mistress’s vigilance and public-spiritedness, I am now wide awake and ready to serve my betters in the middle of the night. I shan’t be able to sleep anymore tonight anyway – not now that I have this pretty customer’s lovely, black sock imprinted on my menial mind!