"The Intervention"

“The Intervention”

     “Donald, would you please stop pacing. You are making all of us nervous.”

     “You’re not in any trouble. Please take a seat.”

     “Let me guess. You want me to sit in this single chair in front of all these other chairs. Exactly, how many individuals do you expect to be coming to this intervention.”

     “How do you know this is an intervention? Who told you about it?”

     “No one told me anything. I figured it out all on my own.”

     “Really! How did you do that?”

     “It wasn’t very hard to do. When I got that email telling me to come here at three o’clock this afternoon I knew something was going on. You didn’t ask me to come here. It read more like you were ordering me to do it. When I got here and saw all these chairs I knew it was some kind of an intervention.”

     “first of all, we didn’t order you to come here. Second, it could be something else besides an intervention. Maybe this is an interview for a job.”

     “It’s not an interview. That must I know for sure. Because I already have a job and I’m not looking for another one at the moment. So what is this? If it’s isn’t an intervention, then what is going on?”

     “You are right. This is an intervention. Do you know what kind of intervention this is?”

     “I don’t smoke, drink, or do drugs. So I doubt it has anything to do with that. It could be about my porn obsession, but I don’t think that’s the reason either. My guess is that this invention is because I spend so time on Writing.com.”

     “That’s also right. You aren’t as stupid as you look. We are worried about you. Why do you spend so much time on Writing.com?”

     “It’s true, I spend a lot of time on Writing.com, but I don’t spend that much time on it. I would like to be on it twenty-four/seven, but unfortunately, I can’t.”

     “If you’re not sleeping, eating or at work then you are on Writing.com. Even when you are eating you usually are on it. Work too when you can do it. I know you can’t go online at work, but you still can do it via your cell phone. If that’s not an obsession, then I don’t know what is.”

     “You’re right. At least you are when it comes to the amount of time I spend on Writing.com. How I access it too, but you are wrong that it’s an obsession.”

     “Then you can quit it at any time. The answer to that is no you can’t. That makes it an obsession.”

     “No, it doesn’t. I’m on it so much because I am a writer. Just because I haven’t sold anything yet doesn’t mean I’m not a writer. I might not ever sell any of my movie scripts, television shows, novels or short stories. That doesn’t mean I’m not a writer. Because I am.”

     “I never said that you weren’t a writer. In fact, I have read some of your short stories and I think you are a very imaginative writer.”

     “You have read some of my stories? What did you think of them? Besides them being imaginative.”

     “Most of them I liked a lot. I did find some grammar mistakes in them too, but you are getting better at that.”

     “I am getting better thanks to Grammarly.com. When a fellow member of Writing.com introduced that to me and I started using it I have gotten a whole lot better. Now I just have to go back and correct the earlier ones. If, and when, I can get a couple of hundred years to do it I will.”

     “All we want to know is why you are so obsessed with Writing.com. That’s why we are having this intervention. Speaking of intervention, I wonder where the other are at. They should have been here by now.”

     “You don’t need me here. I don’t need an intervention. I’m okay. You just tell them what I just told you.”

     “Where do you think you are going. Come back here right now.”


Word Count = 692.