Enslavement of the glow

I assume you know this feeling. You lie down, ready to delve into the land of dreams. But…oh no! What’s that object sitting there on the table? My cruel mechanical overlord, slave owner. This evil object with the mind of an Android and a face with an enigmatic glow. As I am about to drift off to sleep, my evil overlord takes a hold of my mind with his psionic powers and command me to grab him(or it?!), and simply commands me to “service” him. My hands are being  guided across his shiny, glowing face, a screen. I am mindlessly forced to stare into it’s glowing face, slide my fingers across it’s surface, occasionally tap it. “I only wish to sleep damn you”, I say with the feeling of utter frustration. My slave owner responds to this hopeless outcry by freeazing. The screen has now become a painting inside a plastic fram. The reason?  To taunt me. My levels of desperation escalate. Now I am stuck staring at it’s stoic, motionless face. No longer are the images moving, they are still. I feel like a person in a vegetative state, stuck at a gallery, forced to stare at a single painting for hours on end. Will this torturous imprisonment ever end, I wonder? But no, it’s well past midnight and my overlord still demands attention. My hands still firmly gripping his somewhat weak plastic construction. My eyes, like broken window blinds simply won’t shut. The unbearable glow of it’s face won’t let me. As I am about to come to terms with the predicament of never shutting my eyes again, a beeping noise strikes my ear. It’s origin – owner. His powers are getting weak and without precious volts from electricity he shall soon be forced to shut down. A minute later, this event occurs. Free at last, I loudly shout, waking every one of my neighbors. This freedom, howeve, is short lived. You wouldn’t guess how much turmoil can a simply yell of satisfaction and liberation can cause. Every single of the disgruntled neighbors decides to ring my bell and pour out their anger at me like a fire hydrant. This stretches well past five giving me less than an hour to sleep. So, after all this, I simply decide to damn it all to hell, lie down, finally close my eyes and drift off to sleep. So even though I was bitched at by my superiors the next day,overcoming my technological overlord and sleeping for twenty-four hours had been all worth it.