[ WP ] Write a normal , mundane story with normal , mundane characters doing normal , mundane things .

It ’ s been 20-odd years since Melvin could reliably count on his body to pick itself up from the ground if it succumbed to gravity and a loss of friction. However it ’ s only been 38 minutes that he ’ s been lying on his linoleum bathroom floor. 
 
 Melvin is certain both that no one will arrive to pick him up off the floor for at least 18 more hours, and also that his hip is broken. He winces, more from the shame of having succumbed to one of geriatric ’ s most clichéd injuries than from the pain itself. 
 
 Melvin's nurse had attempted to sell him on the benefits of a walk-in shower for several years, but he had vehemently rejected any attempts to remodel such a basic attribute of the house he grew up in, and a clawfoot tub at that! It is this same nurse who he is fairly certain will arrive tomorrow, at 7 A.M., in what he senses may now be closer to 17 hours from now. 
 
 That is, if tomorrow is Friday, which Melvin is almost sure of. His body jerks unconsciously, and for an instant he writhes in pain. Now, Melvin is not so sure - as if in that brief second of agony, his brain had been reset. It may be Friday today, in which case his nurse wo n't arrive until Monday morning, more than 60 hours from now. 
 
 The bathroom is silent save for a quiet drip, drip from the clawfoot bathtub. Melvin tries to remember.
