MORTON — Oh, those lazy days temptations

Some days, you just don’t want to get out of bed.

You need a really good reason to leave your cozy little nest, and you don’t need a reason not to, because this morning, inertia has set in, or maybe it’s still hanging around from sleeping all night.

Either way, that feels pretty good at the moment, but the fact remains; you’re simply not in the mood for being active, so you’re going to try to get in another 20 winks or so, just for good measure.

You don’t actually need a second justification for this laziness, but if you do, there’s always the chance you merely feel you’re due for a lazy day, or possibly (heaven forbid) there’s a chore waiting for you that you just don’t want to do.

Nope. There’s nothing pressing scheduled for the day, so you aren’t in any hurry to get up in the first place. And there’s even more good news, which occurs to you as you lie there motionless (and doesn’t that feel good?). It’s this: It probably isn’t even trash day, so you don’t have to haul yourself out of the sack just to get everything arranged nice and neat the way they like it early in the morning — especially when they don’t get here to pick it up until 11 a.m. anyway.

Nah. Just dig a little deeper under the covers and work on the “extra 20” a little longer just because you can, and even if it does turn out to be trash day, it can wait until next pickup if necessary, because it’s only trash, for Pete’s sake, so what’s the hurry?.

Anyhow, it just ain’t easy to leave a nice, warm, comfortable bed and get involved in something you aren’t crazy about.

It’s much easier to simply lie there luxuriating in your little cocoon and be just plain lazy.

So you do.

Besides, lying in bed when you don’t absolutely have to get up is one of the few little luxuries left in life these days, so you’ll just go ahead and take advantage of it while you can, while the rest of the family already is up and doing and being really nice about not disturbing you.

So you lie there, turning the decision over in your mind.

H-m-m-m. Must have dropped off for a moment.

Let’s see now. There’s a whole day ahead with no chores, no errands to run, and the question of the moment remains: Stir your stumps or not?

Should you try and get in some more sack time, or should you put your bod in motion and start in on a couple of things you’ve been considering, but which could wait a little longer if that’s how you want to do it?

No rush. Let’s just lie here and think it over a little.

You-know-who is up and around already, but she’s being very quiet as usual, because she’s well aware of how hard you work so the whole gang can afford the little luxuries now and then, like getting up late when we feel like it, and it’s quite all right with her if you indulge yourself occasionally like this, so you do.

Anyway, you still haven’t made up your mind whether to doze a little more or join her for the day’s first cup of coffee, but just when you’ve decided to stay in bed for a while, well, that’s the moment you catch a whiff of bacon frying.

End of debate.

Breakfast will root you out of bed every time — and she knows it.

Oh well.

Maybe next time.

But you’re not quite done yet.

On your way to perform the “morning maintenance,” you realize this is a truly unusual day since there’s nothing on the schedule that can’t wait— nothing at all — and we all know what that means, don’t we?

Sooner or later, we can fit in a nap, which will make up for not staying in bed.

That ought to do the trick.

And if it doesn’t, there’ll be time to work in nap No. 2!

Well now. With a nap or two in the future, that makes it worthwhile getting out of bed.

Gee! Didn’t that work out neatly?

Mike Morton writes each week for the Kansan. He can be reached at m24r24fm8445@att.net. Mike’s book, “On The Loose Collection, Volume One,” is on sale in Newton at the Kansan, 121 W. Sixth St.; and Anderson’s Book and Office Supply, 627 N. Main St.