Obviously

“Have you met anybody from your new job?” Blondie asked.

“The guy next to me hung a wooden plaque at the opening of his cubicle,” I said. “It reads ‘Please Knock.’ He won’t talk to you if you don’t.”

“He’s got serious issues,” Brat Boy said. “Does your new boss just ignore it?”

I shrugged. “People ignore the obvious. I knew a woman who couldn’t find a spoon or her lighter.  She ignored her husband’s relapse until the paramedics gave him Narcan in front of the kids. Said she had no idea he was using heroin again.”

"Before she knew he'd relapsed, how did she explain the missing spoons?" Brat Boy asked.

"She found a burnt spoon, and he told her he'd been eating soup. The soup got cold. He was too lazy to get up and reheat it, so he was warming it with the lighter a spoonful at a time. Pondering that explanation distracted her from the missing spoons."

Today I won’t ignore the obvious.

Burnout Training ©2018 by Ken Montrose

Burnout Training is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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