Fawlty Showers 2

 Buttermilk and Whiskey, Jelly Beans and Bacon

As I sat in the locker room of the gym that night, I overheard a middle-aged man giving a younger man advice on how to handle Valentine’s Day. The younger man and his wife had hit a rough patch in their marriage.

I wondered if the younger man recognized the older guy from his commercials. 

“You’re taking relationship advice from a divorce attorney,” I muttered to myself.  “His TV commercial says he hung up his shingle to help you get single.”

The attorney told the younger man not to make a big deal of the day, or he’d have to do so every time they argued. I had to admit, the attorney was smooth and persuasive.

I remembered a doc I’d worked with who held board certifications in both psychiatry and neurology. Our clients would ignore his advice, more interested in their barber or bartender’s opinion.

“Buttermilk and whiskey,” I said to myself, thinking about a particular client. “That crazy bartender told him buttermilk and whiskey cured depression.”  

I couldn’t judge people too harshly. If we like the messenger and/or the message we tend to follow their advice.

If someone I admired told me jelly beans and bacon were the keys to healthy diet, I’d likely eat both until my arteries clogged and my teeth fell out.

“When you ‘consider the source,’” I said to the locker, “you gotta pay attention to how much you like the message and the messenger.”

 

Today I’ll be careful about liking the messenger and the message too much.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

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Fawlty Showers 2

 Just Rewards

“We should do this more often,” I said to Dana as we ate our sandwiches.

“We should,” she agreed.  “We’ve held the clinic together through some tough times.”

“Why don’t we reward ourselves?”

Dana shrugged. “Habit. Some people reward themselves too much.  Some people don’t reward themselves enough.”

She took a bite of sandwich, thought for a moment, and came up with an example.

“My daughter, The Princess, hinted that since I’d been worried about her getting pregnant on her trip to Mexico, and she didn’t, maybe we should reward her with a new phone.”

I laughed. “People who reward themselves too much become entitled, no offense to your daughter.”

Dana shrugged again. “My son got straight A’s all year. When we asked what he’d like for a reward he said a Shamrock Shake from McDonald’s would be nice. You and I are more like my son.”

“People who don’t reward themselves enough miss out.  Your son could have asked for a lot more.” I chewed a bite of sandwich and then asked, “So what do we do about it?”

 “What we should do is pick a goal and decide the reward in advance.” Dana thought for a moment. “We should come here next week if we revamp three of the educational groups. Update the presentation, write new handouts.”

That’s what we did and it was most rewarding.

Today I’ll pick a goal and reward myself when I achieve it.

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Didn’t Day

“Primanti’s for lunch?” Dana asked. Dana and I both usually at lunch at our desks.

I said, “Sure, but what’s the occasion?”

“Didn’t Day.”

“Didn’t Day?”

“One day a year I’m gonna reward myself for all the things I didn’t say or didn’t do because I’m a civilized person, and I don’t want to add to the anger, stupidity, and overall rudeness that’s become the norm,” Dana said in one long breath, punctuating each word with a finger jab.

“OK,” I said, cautiously taking a step backward. “Example?”

“I didn’t tell the woman talking on her phone, blocking the aisle at the grocery store, to move her lazy ass before I ran her over with my cart. Instead I said ‘Excuse me’ twice.”

I got it. “I didn’t eat the last brownie.”

“I didn’t poison the lady from the home owners association when she stopped by for coffee, and to ask when we’d be painting our fence and trimming our hedges.”

“I didn’t complain when the old guy’s stuff took up the entire bench in the locker room. Figured he’d earned a little slack.”

Dana said, “Didn’t punch that new guy in my group who called me Missy, and told me he spent more in tips than I made in a year.”

I noticed Dana’s ‘didn’ts’ were a lot darker than mine, but I didn’t mention it.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Personal Mythology

“One thing worries me,” Dana said. “The Princess is starting to talk about the thoughtless, clueless things The Dope Without Hope did as if they were funny.”

I nodded. “Personal mythology can be funny, but it can be dangerous.”

“Personal what?”

“Mythology, the stories we tell about our past. Let me tell you two stories.”

“Do you have to?” Dana asked, rolling her eyes. I ignored her.

“I was sitting in a morning stats class at my Catholic college, hungover as all hell, just trying to keep my eyes open.  When the professor asked if I was paying attention, I apologized, saying I was lost in prayer.”

“And everyone laughed knowing that was bull?” Dana asked.

“Yes. I felt bad about it, but later I made that sinking feeling seem funny. Didn’t hurt me much to add that to my personal mythology.”

“And the other story?”

“I rolled a car over onto its roof on a busy highway. Couldn’t get out. I was terrified I was going to die.”

“Is that when you quit drinking?”

 “I stayed sober for two weeks, afraid to drink again. Then I started telling the story as if being trapped in that car was funny.  Joked about my fear and what might have happened.  It made it easier to keep drinking.”

 

Today I’ll be careful with personal mythology.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                     www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                     https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Can You Hear the Laughter?

“So how’s your daughter doing now that she’s no longer seeing The Dope Without Hope?” I asked Dana.

Her face lit up. “She’s dating a new guy. We love him. He’s a sweet kid, treats her really well. I met his mom, she’s wonderful.”

I smiled, happy for her and for her daughter. “Glad to hear it.”

“Omigod, is he funny,” Dana added.  “He had my son laughing so hard he had to run to the bathroom to keep from wetting himself.”

Dana chuckled, shook her head, and chuckled again. To my surprise, a dark look crossed her face.

“So what’s the problem?” I asked.

“The Princess and I wonder if he’s going to turn into Dope Without Hope 2.0.  Things started out great with him but went south in a hurry.”

“No way of knowing how this relationship will turn out, but why let yesterday’s echoes drown out today’s laughter?”

 

Today I won’t let past echoes drown out today’s laughter.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Patience

Dana stopped by my office, a box of donuts in hand. We traded our usual insults.

“Get dressed in the dark again?” she asked, gesturing at what I was wearing.

“It’s never a good idea to cut your own hair,” I said, tilting my head, pretending to wince as I looked at the top of her head.

Dana asked if I could talk to her brother.

“He married an immature, self-centered, drama queen a month after they graduated high school. He’s been waiting patiently for twenty miserable years for her to grow up.  Still thinks there’s a beautiful soul buried under all her evil.”

“Pathological patience,” I said. “It’s a killer.”

Dana nodded. “Here’s where you come in. He stopped taking an antidepressant after two days because he wasn’t any better.”

“Two days? What happened to being patient?”

“Guess he used it all up on his wife. He won’t listen to me, has no patience for family advice. He did agree to talk to someone else.”

I agreed to call him, thinking about how many of life’s problems came from having too much or too little patience.

 

Today I hope to be patient, but not too patient.

 

 Fawlty Showers 2 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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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Hackers and Stay at Zone Moms

After I posted my blog, I checked my messages. One of my contacts had sent a warning that she’d been hacked.  She admitted she’d been careless.

It reminded me of a family I knew whose lives had been hacked by a drunk driver.

A soccer mom had stopped for drinks with her girlfriends. She drank a little too much, but decided she’d be OK taking back roads home.  She hit a couple out for a walk in the country.

The wife lingered in a coma for a month before dying. Her husband lived, but the tragedy hacked into his psyche, changing the outgoing, cheerful man he’d been into a lonely widower.  

The son was my client. He got lost for a decade, bouncing from odd to job to odd job, moving across the country, picking up a criminal record along the way. It took years for him to fix his hack.

Xanax™ hacked into his sister’s life, prescribed by a family doctor to help her through her mother’s funeral. Her brother described her as a ‘stay at zone mom’ because she was always zoned out on benzos and muscle relaxers.

I thought tragedy hacked into many people’s lives, but less dramatic forces were more likely to affect me.

Anger, frustration, boredom, self-righteousness, ego, misinformation, and a host of other negative influences, readily available in the real world and online,  could hack into my day, changing me from the person I wanted to be to someone completely different. I had to be careful.

 

Today I’ll be careful not to let negative influences hack into my day.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Chock One Up

I got to my office and opened my laptop.  DipshitDumbass the bunny hopped over and I put him on my lap.

“I’m trying to describe change once someone gets past the initial struggle,” I said to DD.

 

I sat thinking for a long time.  Finally, I said, “Picture a runway with a slight upward slope.  A shallow swamp lies at the downward end.”

DD twitched his ears, a sure sign he was listening.

“Some days you soar in your plane. Other days your plane just takes you were you want to go and back. Routine flight, routine day, but still OK.”

DD’s ears twitched again.

“Other days you’re grounded. The weather’s bad. You’re too sick to fly.  On those days you have to put wheel chocks in place to keep the plane from rolling backwards into the swamp.”

Bunnies can be a little slow, so I explained the analogy.

“The plane is the change you made. Soaring is the rewards. Routine flights are getting through the day.  Bad weather and sickness are the things in life we all go through, whether we’ve made the change or not. The swamp is relapsing.”

DD turned to face me, no doubt dying to know what the wheel chocks were.

“The wheel chocks are the supports we put in place to maintain the change. Could be supportive people, maybe a healthy routine we follow no matter how we feel. For some folks it’s faith.”

I paused for dramatic effect. “The wheel chocks are way more important than their small size would suggest.”

DD twitched in agreement.

 

Today I’ll make sure I’ll be grateful for wheel chocks.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

 The Dance is Over

As I walked into work the next day, a thirtysomething woman sat in the lobby staring at her shoes. I asked how she was doing.

“My devil’s a good dancer,” she said, “but you don’t want to be the one he takes home.”

I thought I knew what she meant. We sat in silence as she collected her thoughts.

She said, “I had a lot of fun drinking, especially with my friends. They seemed to know to when to stop, when the dance was over.  At the end of the night we all went home, but I kept drinking, kept dancing with that devil.”

“I’m glad you’re here,” I said.

“I’m so stupid,” she said, wiping away a tear.

“Just the opposite. Many people dance with their own devils – food, sex, gambling, shopping, drama, resentment, a toxic relationship, whatever – until their lives are ruined.   You were wise enough to know it was time to stop going to the dance.”

 

Today I won’t be going to the dance.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Picture the Joy

When I got home Dr. Deb asked to see the pictures. Pictures. Plural.  I cringed and handed her my phone.

“You took one picture?” Dr. Deb asked. “Just one?”

I said, “It’s a picture of both Katy and baby Kara.  All in one picture, together.”

“Oh, well OK then. Saves me the trouble of scrolling through all the happy faces in the pictures a less efficient person would have taken.”

“I’m detecting some sarcasm,” I said.

“Joy shared is doubled. Would have been nice to share just a little more of Katy’s joy.”

“Still love me?” I asked as I pulled her in for a hug.

“Always,” Dr. Deb said.  She hugged me back, and then punched my shoulder.  “Next time, more pictures or else.”

 

Today I will find a way to share the day’s joy.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

 Hope

Two days later Katy gave birth to a little girl. Earlier, I had suggested Kennie, but Katy named the child Kara instead.

I had known for years there was no such thing as ‘a hopeless addict.’  Early in recovery I’d met too many people who’d seemed broken beyond repair turn their lives around. These people had given me hope.

On the other hand, I had sometimes wondered if some of the world’s problems were hopeless. Watching my children grow, learning more than I would ever know, had renewed my hope.

Holding Kara reminded me great minds were being born every day, great ideas developing.   

As I left the hospital I saw a boy who might have been five years old opening a laptop. I wondered if he was going to play a game or work on his Physics homework.

 

Today I’ll be hopeful.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Cleansing Rumble

When I got home from the funeral I felt more weary than tired. I decided I’d rest my eyes for a moment before I opened my laptop. Dr. Deb woke me three hours later.

 “How was your nap?” she asked.

“I was meditating,” I said. “Pondering deep metaphysical questions of cosmic importance.”

Dr. Deb snorted. “You were snoring.”

“Clearly you don’t know the difference between snoring and what the Buddha called ‘the cleansing rumble.’”

“The cleansing rumble? You made that up.”

I had, not knowing much more about Buddhism than it was spelled with two d’s and an h in the middle. 

“It’s not a well-known concept,” I said, trying to keep a straight face.

   

“I’m glad you got a little extra rest,” she said, wrapping her arms around me. “I think losing Stanley has weighed on you more than you realize.”

I knew she was right. I had needed a little extra sleep.

We could learn from elite athletes, I thought. Runners preparing for marathons load up on carbs.  Weightlifters consume more protein to rebuild muscle after long workouts. 

In our busy world, too many of us don’t follow their example. Those of us doing more than usual, or getting through something draining, often don’t get any extra rest.

 

Today I will get a little extra rest if I need it.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Shocking

My mind wandered on the drive home. As I came around a bend, a deer meandering across the road startled me.  I swerved, missing the animal by inches and almost veering into a ditch on the other side. 

“Wasn’t paying attention,” I said to the steering wheel, feeling more than a little shaken up. “Lucky I didn’t hit him. What if instead of a deer it was somebody walking their dog?”

The near miss jolted me into paying closer attention to the road. I thought of how life could be like a defibrillator, painfully shocking us, but helping us stay alive.

Getting dumped hurt, but made most people take a look at how they treated significant others. Many people quit drinking after a costly DUI, or stopped smoking after a minor heart attack. The pain of losing a job lead some folks to change careers.  The list went on.

“Nobody wants to get shocked into change, but wise people are grateful later.”

 

Today I’ll try to be grateful for whatever shocks me into making changes.

 

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Humor Me

At Stanley’s funeral his daughter handed me a card. I took it out of the envelope and looked at her.

“A thank you note?” I asked. It seemed like an odd thing for Stanley to write.

She rolled her eyes, and said, “Read it.”

I read it aloud. “Thank you for consoling your wife for me after I’m gone.  Now all she can do is dream of what might have been between us.”

I laughed and wiped away a tear. Stanley’s daughter smiled at me.

 “He was always joking about my wife having a secret crush on him,” I explained.

“I will never understand what you old guys think is funny, but I’m glad somebody got his sense of humor.”

“I’m glad he held he held onto it until the end, no matter what life threw at him,” I said, thinking I hope I do the same.

 

Today I will hold onto my sense of humor.

 

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Move It or Lose It

The next day Talmadge texted me that Stanley had died peacefully in his sleep.

‘Time to move,’ Talmadge texted.

I knew what he meant. Over the years Stanley had helped a lot of people get sober.  He recognized he didn’t do it alone, but as part of a recovery movement.

Stanley had challenged people to do more for others.  He’d been fond of saying, “There’s no movement if people don’t move.”

I liked to think I’d helped people get sober, but I wondered if there weren’t other movements that could use my support.

 

Today I will remember there’s no movement if I don’t move.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

Don’t Take It Personally

When I got home that night Blondie and TyGuy had stopped in for dinner.

Out of the blue, Blondie asked, “Did you know our cousins were afraid of Grandma?” She seemed amazed.

I said, “You have to remember where your grandmother was in her life.  They were little when she was still in her momster phase.”

“Momster?”

“Mom and monster. Momster.”

“I remember Grandma giving us cookies and reading to us,” Blondie said, a big smile on her face.

“When you were little she was in her grandma phase. Mom and grandma are often two very different people. Being a grandma is the fun reward for having to be a momster.”

“I can’t picture Grandma being a momster.”

“Forget your grandmother for a minute. People may annoy you, hurt you, pressure you, and maybe even betray you.”

Blondie finished my thought. “Knowing where they are in their lives lets you take it a little less personally.”

“Right. Set boundaries, don’t let them take advantage, or hurt you twice, but know it may be more about where they are in life than who you are.”

 

Today I will consider where people are in their lives.

  

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Just For Today

When I got back to my office I put DD the bunny on my lap.  I wrote out a long, detailed 2Do list. It depressed me to no end.

“This list is weighing on me before I even start,” I said to DD.  I crumpled it up and threw it away.

Across the top of a new sheet of paper I wrote ‘What I Got Done Today.’ 

At the end of the day I hadn’t finished everything on the original list, but I was happy with what I’d accomplished.

“Sometimes it’s just a matter of adjusting the way you think about something,” I said to DD as I put him in his cage for the night.

DD hated clichés, but I hit him with one anyway.

“It’s like thinking about doing without something for the rest of your life versus avoiding it one day at a time. You’re happier at the end of one day if you don’t worry about the next.”

 

Today I will focus just on today.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Creeping Dishonesty

“So,” I said, giving Katy my warmest smile, “do you know what you’re having?”

“I do,” she said, returning my smile. “I also know you’re in the office pool guessing the baby’s gender, date of birth, and weight.”

“Oh, you know, you’re right. I forgot for a moment. Don’t tell me, just give me a hint.”

“Don’t you teach a seminar on ethics?” Katy asked.

“Professional ethics.  This is completely different.”

“You don’t think dishonesty has a tendency to spread like a stain from one part of your life to another?”

I did, but I wanted to win at least part of the pool as well.  “This is such a little thing, more like a spot than a stain.”

Katy rolled her eyes and gave me a disapproving look.

“I’m having a girl,” she said. “Or maybe I’m just telling you I’m having a girl because I want someone else to win the pool.”

I went back to my office knowing she was right about creeping dishonesty but wondering if she was telling the truth or playing me about having a girl.

 

Today I’ll beware of creeping dishonesty.

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Bridges Burned

When I got to work the next day Katy was staring at her computer screen, shaking her head.

“What’s up?” I asked.

Katy said, “A message from my ex’s mother. A list of her expectations for the baby. Did I tell you she pushed her son to refuse to pay child support?”

I looked over Katy’s shoulder at the list that ended with ‘do this and we’ll get along fine.’

“How do you even respond?” I asked.

“You don’t,” Katy said. “If someone burns the bridge between you, you don’t have to listen to them shouting at you from the other side.”

I liked the analogy. “You’d be foolish to stand on your side watching what they do on theirs.”

“If someone walked away from you, burning the bridge behind him, you don’t risk drowning to swim after them.”

“The further you move away from the shore, the harder it is for them to take shots at you.”

Katy hit delete. “I think we’ve tortured that analogy enough for one day.  Better to stick with the slogan ‘Let It Go’ and really let other people’s issues go.”

 

Today I’ll let it go.

   

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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Fawlty Showers 2

 

Glad You’re OK

On New Year’s Day texts flew between my loved ones and me.  Everyone had gotten through the evening safely. I had been fairly certain they would, but I was grateful nonetheless.

I reminded myself life could be unpredictable. Bad things didn’t always happen to somebody else, or somebody else’s loved ones.

I made my first New Year’s resolution, not to take anyone for granted in 2022.

Today won’t take anybody for granted.

 

Fawlty Showers 2 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:

•                    www.greenbriartraining.com  

•                    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

 

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