The Passing Game

As we were loading the bins into my car, Brat Boy held up a small socket set. “You sure you want to give this away?” he asked. I wasn’t.

The set had been my Uncle Tony’s. When he had a stroke, my Aunt Ruth gave it to my dad.  When my dad moved in with my sister, he gave it to me. It held sentimental value.

That socket set also had a coating of dust on the case. I had another set I used. Brat Boy had picked up a toolbox filled with sockets and wrenches at a garage sale. 

I wanted to keep the sockets. Knowing my uncle and my dad had used them made me smile. Seeing the case was dusty chipped away a little of my happiness.  I also wanted to know they were being put to good use.

They say in AA, to keep what you have, you have to pass it along.  If you want to keep your sobriety, help other people stay sober.  If I wanted to keep the good feeling about the tools, I’d have to give them away.

 “No sense in keeping it,” I said, “Trevor needs it more than we do.”

Today I’ll keep what I have by passing it along.

Dogged Determination ©2018 & 2019 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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