At the sound of my electric alarm clock (running on AC invented by the Serbian Tesla) I saw the time was 7:30 (Using the Arabic number system) and got out of my bed (invented in South Africa around 3600 B.C. ) and put on my slippers (traced back to the 12th century when the Vietnamese had been wearing slippers. But in the West, the record can only be traced to 1478.) and went to the bathroom to use the toilet (During the third millennium BC, toilets and sewers were invented throughout the world. Mohenjo-Daro circa 2800 BC is cited as having some of the most advanced, with toilets built into outer walls of homes. These toilets were Western-style, albeit a primitive form, with vertical chutes, via which waste was disposed of into cesspits or street drains). Brushed my teeth (The first bristle toothbrush resembling the modern one was found in China. Used during the Tang Dynasty (619–907)). Then I put on my pants (Trousers enter recorded history in the 6th century BC, on the rock carvings and artworks of Persepolis,[6] and with the appearance of horse-riding Eurasian nomads in Greek ethnography. At this time, the Iranian People such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Sogdians and Bactrians among others, along with Armenians and Eastern and Central Asian peoples such as the Xiongnu and Hunnu, are known to have worn trousers.[) , although Barbara says I would look good in Scottish kilts – too cold for them in Michigan winter. Breakfast consisted of a cup of coffee (specifically having its origin in Ethiopia and Sudan). Bundled up, got the snow shovel and went out to clean the drive and walk.
While shoveling, I thought of my Anglophile friend who thinks everything traditional from Great Britain is superior. Wonder if he got out his straw bed put on his sandals, cleaned his teeth with a branch or animal bone, had barley water put on his kilt and sandals, donning an animal skin cloak. He claims the traditional English breakfast is best but gets pissed when I point out the “traditional English breakfast” still has tea from China or India and is mostly influenced by Romans.