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The other night I got home rather late, hungry from a long night of work and tired from driving in such stressful weather. My roommates are a little edgy when it comes to sleep, if I wake them they will hate me. So I decided to take my food up to my room without turning on the hallway lights.

I fixed myself a quick dinner and got it ready to take upstairs. As I looked into the fridge for a drink with which to wash down my hurried cuisine I spied the milk. It was so white, almost radiant. This radiance made me think:

"I can use the milk as a flashlight in the dark."

It seemed so logical at the time, so white and pure, so bright in the refrigerator. I poured a tall glass of milk to take on my eating expedition. Holding my dinner plate and glass of milk I turned off all of the kitchen lights and preceded upstairs.

"The dark shouldn't bother me," I thought, " I have this beacon of a beverage in front of me."

At first the milk did nothing, I accredited this to my eyes acclimating to the milk-light, something that I was not yet accustomed to. I walked boldly onwards toward the stairs, the milk still not showing me the way. I knew the house well and realized I had to walk up the stairs at this point. I was not worried yet as I climbed, the milk would soon light the way. I reached the top of the staircase and stepped on my roommate's skateboard, I flew through the air backwards, it seemed as if I was falling forever. The last thing I remember before waking up in the hospital was the milk touching my face as my body hung flailing over the staircase.

In retrospect I realize that trusting milk to shine my way was somewhat ridiculous. I now know that though milk looks very white in the light of the fridge, it is quite black when the door is shut. But there is one thing I have learned; if your roommates are true friends, after you break your leg falling down the stairs cause you didn't want to wake them, they won't mind if you turn on the hallway light when you need to.

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