65. Just Slipping By

Derrick called to tell Mikey he should go to AA meetings to get his slip signed.  Mikey didn't know what he meant.

Derrick said, "I'll fax you a sheet of paper.  It'll have blanks where you write down the day, time, and name of an AA meeting you attend.  At the end  of a meeting, you have the chairman sign it. It's called 'getting your slip signed.'  Go to speaker meetings.  I'll give you a list of big ones.  You can sit in the back and play with your phone."

"Shouldn't I pay attention, try to get something out of it?" Mikey asked.

"Just get the damn slip signed. That's all the judge is gonna look at." Derrick hung up.

As a principal Mikey had  seen a few teachers who  taught enough not to get fired, and students who did just enough to pass. Both frustrated and saddened him.  'Not gonna be a bare minimum, just enough to get by guy,' he said to himself. 'I'm gonna do more than get my slip signed.'

Today I will do more than get my slip signed.

Mikey, Repulsive, and Repugnant (c) 2016 by Ken Montrose

Mikey, Repulsive, and Repugnant is a work of fiction.  Any resemblance between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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