Here I was, enjoying my day off after like weeks of running around like a chicken without a head. I decided to indulge myself in another K-Drama series “CLOY”.

I started where I stopped last time, which was episode 12. Then hubby came into the room to check what I was up to. Being the curious Boar that he is, I smiled and immediately defended my laziness as “enjoying” my much-deserved day off. (Of course, with a huge silly grin on my fat-freckled old face).

Seeing that the setting is partly in North Korea, got him hooked. He grew up in East Germany or DDR. He felt he could relate to the situation-environment and practices that was somewhat “realistically” portrayed in the drama. My hubby is not one to binge on K-dramas. He used to binge on all the Star Trek episodes…. Even got his encyclopedia, but never on K-Dramas.

In any case, I change the audio in German as well as the subtitles, for his convenience. Then I explained the story to him so that he can still follow even after skipping the first 11 episodes. He watched it with keen interest and even made some comments about how it was similar to the old DDR times. I didn’t notice when he fell asleep, but suddenly, I could hear his very light regulated breathing. I debated whether I should stop watching and only continue when he wakes up again. But, I thought, since he would most probably still watch the first 11 episodes when I am not home anyway, I just let him sleep further.

About 30 minutes towards the end of the 12th episode, he suddenly stood up. Looked for the remote control and paused the ongoing episode. I’m like: “whoa! what happened?”. And he goes, “let me go to the toilet for a minute”.

“Huh!!!! But you were sleeping the whole, so why bother to pause the episode when you go for toilet break. You won’t be able to follow the ongoing story anyway”.

To which he replied: “Yes. That’s why!”

Duuh!!! I suddenly felt like I was the one who just woke up!