Fawlty Showers

Donuts

“Wait,” Dana said, between bites of her sandwich, “you eat two donuts every morning. How can you say you avoid sweets?”

I said, “Donuts are not sweets. Candy is sweets. Pop is sweets. Cake is sweets.”

“Donuts are like little circle cakes made with sugar and covered in something sugary.”

“You’re confusing donuts with cupcakes.”

“You’re rationalizing. You’re like that guy who smokes weed all day every day and tells himself he’s a recreational user.”

She took another bite of sandwich, and added, “You’re like the woman who buys hundreds of scratch-off tickets and says she’s doing it because the proceeds benefit senior citizens.”

“And you couldn’t be more wrong,” I said, knowing she was right.

Today I won’t rationalize.

(Unless it’s about something really important, or I really want to do, or…)

 

Fawlty Showers © 2020 by Ken Montrose

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

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