Temptation -- Topic #141
Howard, I don’t understand why you would want to know this but here you go an honest answer. I don’t get tempting yourself with something you know you shouldn’t have. The drug you know could send you straight to the ER, or to the morgue, the foot on the accelerator that could send you spinning out of control.
Okay, okay, I said an honest answer, so try this. There is a bottle of Talisker sitting in my cabinet, a gift from a friend I hadn’t seen in eight or nine months. Someone who didn’t know I’d quit drinking, who didn’t know I’d been to rehab. I could have turned it down, hell I could open it and pour it out or take it to my next-door neighbor. I could wrap it up and send it to Woody with a note explaining where I got it from and he’d accept it with thanks.
I could be rid of it any number of ways, but its still there, tempting me, taunting me to crack it open and have a sip, just one little glass. I could or at least that is what I tell myself, that I could have one drink. Then again, one drink was never my problem; it was all the drinks that came after one drink.
So explain it to me, Howard. Explain why we tempt ourselves with the very thing that will kill us in the end.
Muse: Garret Macy
Fandom: TV Misc. /Crossing Jordan
Words: 239
Okay, okay, I said an honest answer, so try this. There is a bottle of Talisker sitting in my cabinet, a gift from a friend I hadn’t seen in eight or nine months. Someone who didn’t know I’d quit drinking, who didn’t know I’d been to rehab. I could have turned it down, hell I could open it and pour it out or take it to my next-door neighbor. I could wrap it up and send it to Woody with a note explaining where I got it from and he’d accept it with thanks.
I could be rid of it any number of ways, but its still there, tempting me, taunting me to crack it open and have a sip, just one little glass. I could or at least that is what I tell myself, that I could have one drink. Then again, one drink was never my problem; it was all the drinks that came after one drink.
So explain it to me, Howard. Explain why we tempt ourselves with the very thing that will kill us in the end.
Muse: Garret Macy
Fandom: TV Misc. /Crossing Jordan
Words: 239