Fawlty Showers

Quit the Quit

When I got to work on Monday I went to the dorms to see how everyone was feeling.

Someone had drawn a large poster of a coat of arms.  Interlocking toilet seats made to look like the Olympic rings filled the center of a shield. In the bottom corners, outside the shield, the artist had drawn a man sitting on a commode in one corner, a woman throwing up in a sink in the other.

The poster read ‘Brotherhood of the Bowl: March 14^th -17^th, 2025.’  Across the bottom someone had scrawled ‘May God have mercy on our bowls.’ Someone else had added an ‘e’ to bowls to make it ‘bowels’.

Apparently it had been a rough weekend at the rehab.  And yet, nobody had signed out of treatment.  They hadn’t stopped trying to stop using, they hadn’t quit the quit.

I thought of other people who hadn’t quit the quit. People who didn’t go back to the ex because they were lonely. People in OA who didn’t eat junk because they were sad. People who didn’t go back to dealing because they were broke.  I felt inspired.

Today I won’t quit the quit.

 

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

Other works by Ken Montrose are available at:

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