Blondie and Smiling Crocodiles
Brat Boy called to tell me about the coed soccer league he
and Blondie played in.
Brat Boy said, “Guy sees we have two girls playing defense
and says, loud enough for everyone to hear, ‘This should be easy.’”
“Never underestimate your enemy,” I said.
“You know Blondie. She’s all smiles until the whistle blows.
Guy’s laughing. He has no idea what’s coming.”
“How’d it turn out?”
“We won,” Brat Boy said. “Blondie was bruised and battered
at the end, but so was that guy. He didn’t score. Doubt he’ll underestimate her
again.”
I thought about all the addictions, all the bad habits, all
the enemies, people faced. Underestimating their pull and the damage they could
do was never a good idea. Too many people I’d known had lost their sobriety
going to a bar to drink Pepsi.
“Nope, never pays to
underestimate your enemy.”
After he hung up, I hummed a tune we’d sung as kids. The
woman in the song thought she could ride a crocodile, claiming he was ‘as tame
as he could be.’
I sang the final verse to DD the bunny. “At the end of the
ride, the lady was inside, and the smile was on the crocodile.”
Today I won’t underestimate my enemy.
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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