Tonight I was talking to a friend on the phone, and I yawned. I then apologized for yawning, and wondered aloud why it was so contagious.
That reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend towards the end of semester, when we met for breakfast at the beginning of the day, and she could not stop yawning. Which meant that I could not stop yawning.
We sat and yawned for a bit, and then she apologized for having started me off. We wondered why this happened, and she told me that sometimes she did this with her small daughter. They would exchange yawns for a while. My friend would yawn. Her daughter would yawn. My friend. Her daughter. My friend. And then her daughter would stop.
"Hey, where's your yawn?" my friend would ask, and her daughter would reply,
"Sorry Mummy, I don't have any left."
This amazed me. Is this a kid thing? How can anybody possibly have no yawns left? I thought yawns were inexhaustible. I thought EVERYBODY had a bottomless pit of yawns.
Kids don't?
2 comments:
I have nothing sensible to add except to say that this post made me yawn. It really is contagious!
I have no idea, but I will have to notice what happens when I am next yawning and people are around. I thought they were inexhaustible.
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