Fawlty Showers

 Label

While I was running group, Dana went to the pet store to get a companion for Hoss the bunny.  Three days earlier her son had taken his first tuba lesson and had started practicing in the basement.

Her daughter, The Princess, had graduated and been given the options of work, college, or the military. Instead, she planned to spend the summer driving to Chile with her boyfriend whom Dana had nicknamed ‘The Dope Without Hope.’

In short, Dana was a little distracted when she picked the new bunny. She didn’t ask if it was a boy bunny or a girl bunny. A month later Pepper, the new bunny, gave birth to six more rabbits.

“I’m so stupid!” Dana said the day after the little miracles were born.

“No, you’re not,” I said. “You were distracted. Don’t label yourself based on one mistake.”

Dana reached down to stroke one of the kits. Pepper bit her. Dana held up her finger as if to say, “see, here’s another dumb thing I did.’

I said, “Nope, you still don’t label yourself based on one or two mistakes.”

 

Today I won’t label myself.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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