26 Bedtime habit or odd man out

Now that cellphones were in, Mr. Aaron Lee had always been in it.

The middle-aged executive had been studying the features of the latest Huawei design to his amusement. So this was what put the Chinese back in the economic competition, he thought. He liked everything—the handiness, the convenience, the cinematic features, the music app, and the games. These were what occupied his nights now after spending a little time in the office only to check things out. When he got tired, he retired to his bed, in the bedroom next to his wife's bedroom.

Have you seen couples sleep on separate beds? That wasn't an entirely unusual thing. A lot of couples do the same thing when middle or advance age sets in. They need space to breathe from being too close.

But that was not the only habit Aaron did; he had been drinking, until he fell semi-asleep or until he was in the REM stage, the saccadic movement becoming visible when Isabella grabbed the cellphone in his hand.

Whenever his drinking came to an end, Isabella had to be there, firstly, to check whether he had fallen asleep on his chair by trying to grab the object of his enjoyment, and secondly, to wash the wares he used because she hated roaches.