11. If you really
know what you’re doing there are things you don’t do.
“It wasn’t my sister that got me into treatment,” Gerry said
after a pause in the conversation. “I
confronted my friend about a needle I found in his bathroom. He joked about it not being for knitting. Told me not to worry, he knew what he was
doing. I was snorting Adderall and
drinking every day, convinced I knew what I was doing. A week later he overdosed. His little girl found him.”
“So clearly he didn’t know what he was doing, and maybe you thought you didn’t either?” I asked.
“So clearly he didn’t know what he was doing, and maybe you thought you didn’t either?” I asked.
“My grandfather used to say, ‘If you really know what you’re
doing there are things you don’t do.’ He was talking about drinking and flying,
but other stuff too.”
Today I will remember people who know what they’re
doing don’t do certain things.
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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