OUT OF SUPPLIES

I remember that day very clearly.
It was a Tuesday morning sometime in the early days of this year.
At the time, I was in-training at this my current job and had not begun to work remotely.
The day before, my team leader had given me an assignment for a presentation that I was to make.

Back then, it was just myself and my sister who were home. The eve to my presentation, while i was working, my sister woke up from sleep, holding her stomach and soon after, she began to throw up. I left what i was doing to attend to her. She was running a temperature. I took to cleaning her body with a warm clothe, rubbing her back, giving medication and just closely watching her.

After so long, she manged to go to bed at around 3am and so i went back to my work, relieved. At around past 4am, i was done and i went to bed too.
I awoke by 6:30am. 30minutes later than I should and hurried through my preparation for my sister(what she might need) and me because my office was quite a distance to my workplace. Plus factoring how difficult it usually is to get a bus due to the number of people who are always at the bus station, I could go late.

All this time I felt very sleepy so once I was done, I went by the kitchen to mKe me a cup of coffee to help awaken me well enough. I set water to boil and when I rummaged through the kitchen cabinet, I couldn't find any coffee. Then I remembered that I had taken the last one days earlier.

I thought to just get to work and take some from the office tea cupboard since we usually got some there. After checking in on my sister, I left. I arrived a little late, signed in and went to the secretary in charge to ask for some coffee. It turned out that they had run out of it and only had hot chocolates.
I couldn't take hot chocolates. They only made me warm and would end up making me very sleepy, thereby worsening my situation

So I went to the canteen on the down floor of the office block. Unfortunately, yet again, one of the salespersons told me there wasn't coffee. She said the supplier hadn't supplied and had called to say it wouldn't be until the next week.

At that point, I was already exhausted and very groggy. My eyes were bloodshot and felt heavy.
It did not help that my office is located in a very work-exclysive, pristine environment which was located far off from shops and supermarkets, so there was nothing to do.

So, i just resigned myself to fate and went back to doing my job. I took some bubble gum from a colleague hoping it would wade away sleep but all the chewing only gave me a headsche and felt like too much work. I stayed off food too so i don't feel full and lazy.

I felt very drained throughout the day. My vision was blurred, head was pounding from fatigue and lack of sleep. Couldn't concentrate and just experienced an awfully bad day. So you can picture a hungry, exhausted, groggy man trying to stay present at his job inspite of the inner turbulence he was facing.

What made matters worse was how slow the day seemed to crawl. After sitting, standing and walking around in a bid to not break down or fall asleep while on duty, I would check the time when it seemed like four hours had passed only to find that it was just five minutes gone. It was a long, lazy, un-me day. I still wonder how I managed to pull off my presentation.

When after a thoisand hours the day came to an end, i immediately packed up my stuff and headed straight for home. I even slept through the drive home. Thankfully my stop was the last stop for the bus too else, maybe I'd have missed my stop.

The one good thing about that day was that one of my cousins came around and relieved me of my job of having to look after my ill sister lest I would have gone home to no rest.

No one told me after that day to have supplies of coffee for myself. I did not need to wait until I had run out totally before repurchasing and I did myself some good by getting some for my locker at the office. There's no experiencing that incident a second time. No way.

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