I’m in the bathroom, not quite awake yet. Open the cabinet, take out the toothpaste. Reaching for toothbrush I knock something off the shelf — grab! I miss, of course, and knock tubes and bottles all over the place.

Pause a moment for the chaos to subside. I pick up the nail-clipper from the floor, and one-handed set the bottles and tubes back upright.

Start again: the cabinet is already open, where’s the toothpaste?

But with all the rearrangements, the tubes and bottles in the wrong places, I can’t find it. It takes me a while to be sure it’s not there, because searching one-handed through all those misplaced tubes and bottles is slow. One-handed because my other hand is still holding …

Oh.