4. Wanted
Gerry waited for me to test his sample. He was negative for the fifteen different
drugs.
“Completely clean,” I said.
“Good to know,” he said.
“You don’t seem very happy about it.”
“I am, but it’s just one day.
I still want to drink. I want to do half the drugs you test for.”
I laughed. “Gerry, wanting and doing are two different
things. I’ve been sober twenty-eight
years and every now and then I want a beer. I know easy-going folks who want to
choke a co-worker. One of the most honest, ethical, people I know wants to rob
a bank. He can tell you how he’d do it. If wanting and doing were the same thing, civilization
would have ended long ago. Now if you told me you a had compulsion, or felt
overwhelmed by a craving…”
Today I won’t be too concerned by my wants.
Needles Not For Knitting (c) 2016 by
Ken Montrose
Needles Not For Knitting is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between the
characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.
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