Wednesday
October 14, 2014
Life on Life's Terms
Insanity
The memo was from The
Boss and The Other Ken. All inquiries
from federal agencies, attorneys, or
the courts were to be forwarded to The Boss.
"What's this memo
about?" I asked Josh when he walked past my office.
"So Smiley found out
he couldn't sue the FDA for firing him, but he did find a lawyer willing to
help him fight to keep his job," Josh said.
"He got a DUI with
a stolen gun in the car."
"He's arguing that
he wasn't drunk, and David gave him the gun."
"His BAL was .13
and Smiley took the gun without David's permission. He pointed it at David."
"True, but
Smiley's attorney will argue that none of this was proven in court, and the FDA
jumped the gun by firing him."
"Smiley can't
possibly win the arbitration," I said.
"The Boss thinks
he might, even if he eventually loses over the DUI and stolen weapon
charges."
"Just because the
FDA didn't wait for Smiley's trial?
That's insane."
"You know the old
saying, 'the whole world's crazy except for me and you, and I'm not so sure about
you.'"
Today I will accept the world's insanity.
Life on Life's Terms (c) 2014 by Ken Montrose
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RPG
Off the leash
"Hey, we got a
Michelle and another Michelle in this group," Tony pointed out. "How am I supposed to keep them
straight?"
"They don't look anything
alike and one's twenty years older than the other," I said. "I think you'll be able to tell them
apart."
"Nah, one of them needs
a nickname," Tony said half joking.
He looked at the older Michelle who just shrugged.
The younger Michelle stared
at her shoes. "In high school they called me 'Leash' because my boyfriend
kept me on a short one. He never let me
do anything unless he was right there with me." She started to cry softly.
"I had a
girlfriend who was on a leash our sophomore and junior years," Julie
said. "Right before senior year,
she dumped him. We started calling her
'Syll' for See You Later, Loser. That
morphed into Seal. Seal runs her own
accounting firm now. She's 90% of the
funding for a women's shelter in the North Hills. You remind me of her, right after she broke
her leash. Can I call you Seal?"
The younger Michelle
smiled and nodded, "It beats being called Leash."
"I would never be
on a leash," Tony said.
"You have a bottle
of vodka in your car," Julie said.
"You're on a liquid leash.
So am I. I gotta tell you
something. Being off the leash, like
when you're clean and sober, or when you're really in love with someone who
doesn't want to keep you leashed, that's the best."
Today I will celebrate being off the leash, whatever that leash
was.
RPG: Relapse Prevention
Group © 2014 by Ken
Montrose
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