O'Ryan staggered home very late after another evening
with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife,
Mary. He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading
to their up stairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step. As he caught
himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed
heavily on his rump. A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and
made the landing especially painful. Managing not to yell, Flynn
sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see
that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly
find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could
on each place he saw blood. He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box
and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed. In the morning, Flynn woke up
with searing pain in both his head and butt and Mary staring at him from
across the room. She said, "You were drunk again last night weren't
you?"
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22 hours ago
" Flynn said, "Why do you say such a mean thing? " Well, "
Mary said, "it could be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the
bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through
the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly.....it's
all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror!".
2007-11-26
03:20:39
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