“Um … Bunny? I think there's a creature [1] in the room.”
“Really?”
“You didn't hear it?”
“Hear what?”
“A … an … unearthly chirping…esque … sound, like a wounded dodo bird [2].”
“Dodo's are extinct—how do you know what they sound like?”
“How do you know what they don't sound like?”
“Touché.”
“Listen … ”
[One snooze period [3] passes]
“I haven't heard anything.”
“Give it some time.”
[Another snooze period passes]
“Did you hear that?”
“I … think … so … ”
“**THAT!**”
“Oh, that! It's just the bougainvillea [4] scraping against the window.”
“Bougainvillea?”
“Yes. Definitely the bougainvillea.”
“Well, if that's all it is then … zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”
[1] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/murphy/ml409.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo