I sat up in bed, still asleep. I knew I had forgotten to do something important. I got up, and walked through the hallway, all the way to the bathroom sink. I picked up my toothbrush from its usual place, and set it on the floor of the hallway. "Thank you!" I called, in a cheerful tone of voice. Then I went back to bed.
Here's what was going through my mind:
I had forgotten to pay the Cleaners. The Cleaners are a race of tiny beings that live in the carpet. I had hired them to keep the carpet clean while I was on a business trip for a week. In the Cleaner society, toothbrushes are currency.
It made perfect sense to me at the time. When I walked out into the hallway in the morning, I stopped when I saw my toothbrush on the ground. I stood there staring at it for about three minutes before I remembered why it was there.
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