Fawlty Showers

Numb

“How’s your new neighbor?”  I asked Brat Boy.

“He’s an AA,” Brat Boy said, shaking his head.

“You mean he’s in AA.”

“No, he’s an AA, amateur anesthesiologist.  He likes to make himself numb.  Apparently he thinks a lot of himself and finds living among the common folk painfully disappointing.”

“Trouble with being numb is you never learn to deal with life’s pain. It seems to slow the healing from whatever wounds you suffer. You can’t feel the good things in life, either.”

“He’ll be too drunk to notice when Snakes in the Hood IV comes out,” Brat Boy said, laughing.

“Numb prolongs the pain, postpones the joy,” I said.

 

Today, be it good or bad, I’ll be glad I’m not numb.

 

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

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