23-07-2018, 09:11 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Sorry for your loss Sweetie. It hasn’t been good for you this year so far, but as they say when bad luck strikes, good luck always follows, balance is what life is all about I think, you have to take the bad with the good, so things can only pick up for you from here, hopefully.
Talking of drink, I was talking to an old friend of mine last week in Killarney, he was a devil for the drink, really bad on it. When I bumped into him he was with his wife in the same pub we were in and he was drinking lemonade, he was in great form and looked a hell of a lot better than he did. I kid you not but this is how the conversion went.
Me: “Ah hello there Sean, how are you keeping?”
Him: I’m terrific Jem, nice to see you and your family down here again, your nearly a local now”
Me: Am I seeing things or are you off the drink?
Him: “Yes I packed it in”
Me: “How long are you off it?”
Him: Three years, six months, four days, two hours, (He looks at his watch) and about ten minutes”
Me: Do you miss it?”
What an obviously stupid question, I wished I hadn’t said that, but he just looked at me and the pair of us laughed.
The way I see it is if he can pack it in anyone can, if they have a mind to.