Fawlty Showers
Similarities
I saw the number pop up on my phone and cringed. Every year
my friend and his wife gave up alcohol for Lent. She did it for religious
reasons. He tried to prove he had no
problem with alcohol.
‘No booze during Lent,’ he wrote. ‘Goes to show we’re both
just social drinkers.’
I texted, ‘She enjoys
a glass of wine with pasta. You get
drunk and eat Spaghettios from the can at 3:00 a.m.’
‘Exaggeration,’ he texted.
‘When she wants a glass during Lent, she says a little prayer
and orders a coke. You drive everyone up
the wall fidgeting and bragging about how you don’t need alcohol.’
No reply.
I continued, “On Easter Sunday your wife will drink a glass
with her meal. You will pass out and
call it a ‘nap’ and/or vomit ham into the hedges.’
He texted, “Bye.”
“Similarities fuel denial,” I said to my laptop. “He thinks
he’s a social drinker because they both gave up booze for Lent. He’s like the
abusive dad who thinks he’s just like his neighbor who believes in a little
discipline, or the glutton who calls himself a gourmet.”
Today I beware of the similarities.
Fawlty Showers is
a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might
know is purely coincidental.
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