Glaciers and Cadillacs

“Where’s your car?” I asked Josh, not seeing his boat-mobile Cadillac from the 70’s.

“I downsized,” Josh said. He pointed to an older Honda two cars away. “It gets better gas mileage, friendlier to the environment.”

“Josh the environmental warrior,” Trevor said sarcastically.  The only thing Josh ever recycled was denial. The denial he used before he got sober became the arguments he used to convince himself he didn’t have a gambling problem.  He’d been caught pouring old paint into the storm drain in front of his house. Josh driving a smaller car had nothing to do with the environment. 

I suspected he’d sold his car to pay off gambling debts. Switching to a smaller car wasn’t a catastrophe, but it reminded me of a glacier melting. Sometimes small chunks of the glacier fall off. Not enough to even notice if you weren’t watching. The small chunks were a warning sign that much bigger pieces were about to fall. Boats too near the glacier were likely to get swamped when they fell.

 

Today I won’t ignore warning signs.

Dogged Determination ©2018 by Ken Montrose

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

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