Turn off the lights.

Quite frankly, it's the worst way to be awakened: a flash going off in front of your eyes. An explosion of light molecules, and there go eight of my nine lives sputtering before my eyes. Give me a break or I'll break her legs, even better. I come up behind her and dash my front feet on the back of her knee. She almost buckles and then I run off. Ha, that's for waking me with the camera flash.