Fawlty Showers

Virtue and Vice

Dana’s phone buzzed. She rolled her eyes and typed in a message.

“Being involved in your kids’ lives is a virtue,” Dana said, “but my daughter’s boyfriend’s mom texts me almost every day about their relationship. She’s managed to make parenting a vice.”

“There’s a Japanese word ‘karoshi’ that means death by work,” I said. “Hard work becomes a killer vice.”

“That’s the only Japanese word you know,” Dana said laughing. “Don’t pretend you’re an expert on Japanese culture.”

I ignored her. “A guy I know has twenty years clean. Instead of just setting a good example, he goes around telling everyone their problems and what they should quit doing. He’s made sobriety if not a vice, at least annoying.”

Today I’ll be careful not to make a virtue into a vice.

Fawlty Showers is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental

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