Drunk again
Ole staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy,
Swen. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Lena.
He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their
upstairs 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, Ole 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 box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed.
In the morning, Ole woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and
Lena staring at him from across the room. She said, “You were drunk again
last night weren’t you Ole?”
Ole said, “Why you say such a mean t’ing?”
“Well,” Lena 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 downstairs mirror.