Feb 22, 2021
When
I threw the bottle I wasn't thinking it would hit him.
What's up, what you see back there is a situation that
I probably could have avoided, but I am bored and drunk with a wee
bit of an ax to grind against Kyle over here. See Kyle and his
sister decided it was a good idea to come over to my patch and skid
tire until they ripped up the water lines to my new irrigation
system. They sped off but not before I touched their bumper with my
shotgun. Unfortunately, it was only birdshot and from 20 yds. He
probably doesn't know I tried to kill him that day is what I am
getting at.
This
time he knew exactly who and what just tried to kill him with a
beer bottle and that would dare I say be me. Kyle came with fury at
me when mom came out of the pantry and starting in on us. "Will you
stop it? Is that a beer, right now at 10am?. Have you even went to
sleep yet from last night? Of course, you haven't. The two of you
are going nowhere fast, you know. Last month you were in the clink
because you couldn't hold your beer and then drove all around
causing trouble. You would be wise to put down the bottle for just
a couple nights during the week and give your liver a chance to
relax. Gonna die slow and in agony, you keep up this nonsense.
You'll get punished somehow".
"Alright, alright, we will put down the drink just as
soon as you tell us what is in the chicken pot pie
recipe".
"Frank, once you give enough of care about yourself to
put that bottle down a few days a week, I'd consider telling you.
But you think I'm going to tell all my secrets to a little boy who
can't hold his liquor and swerves around in his car high and on
alcohol then you're even dumber than I thought".
Kyle
looked at Frank and sat down his beer and gave a chuckle. "Kyle,
what are you laughing at? You're 27 and still hanging around this
mess, for what? I'm going to be late to diner. Please, get some
sleep and be ready for your shifts tonight.
"Kyle, are you getting dressed yet? We have 3 minutes
until we have to leave!". Kyle appeared and nearly scared Frank to
drop his toast. "Dude, why do you do that to me? YOu know I scare
like a little kid. My head is pounding from last
night".
"Eh-
I'm good. Not too bad. Older I get though, this stuff is getting
rougher each time. Maybe mom is right and we need to clean up our
life". Kyle said "Funny you say it man because I have been reading
this book that mom left on the counter by Jocko Willink". It's
about him in the war and stuff when he was a Sargent or something.
He was in charge of running a team over in Afghanistan. He talks
about this thing called " Extreme Ownership".
"Wait, so you've been doing this stuff already that mom
has been on us about?"
Well,
yeah, dude. It makes sense and I have been waiting for you to come
around but I have been getting very impatient with you!" Let's get
to work, we have more to discuss after our shift is
over.
Can
you believe him? Seriously, he has been doing this self-help stuff
right under my nose. How didn't I realize that he was changing? How
didn't I see this? Am I really up my own so far that I am just not
paying attention enough? I mean, yeah I'm a little hungover and dry
mouth but it's not like I haven't done this a million times. Also,
why hasn't he moved on and left me in the dust?