Jimi leans down to speak to his 13-year-old nephew Zaxby. “You disgust me. You have become a disgrace to your friends and family. You are causing your mother to weep. Have all that they have done for you been for nothing? All the time that they’ve spent to give you a decent life? And you throw that in their face just because you can’t get your head out of a bottle.”
Jimi’s sister interrupts, “Um, he’s not an alcoholic Jimi, he’s just failing science.”
“Oh. I thought this was an intervention. Heck, I failed science. I’m not really sure why you invited me here. But oh well, I’ll try again. Zaxby, sometimes in our life, we need to do things that we don’t want to do on the road to get somewhere we really do want to be, like a professional athelete. In fact, that happens in life more than I’d like to admit. We need to be strong and take it day by day. I know science may be tough, but you don’t have to get an A. Let’s just try to bump that up to a C. If you can do that, I will be so incredibly proud of you.
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Jimi’s sister interrupts, “Um, he’s not an alcoholic Jimi, he’s just failing science.”
“Oh. I thought this was an intervention. Heck, I failed science. I’m not really sure why you invited me here. But oh well, I’ll try again. Zaxby, sometimes in our life, we need to do things that we don’t want to do on the road to get somewhere we really do want to be, like a professional athelete. In fact, that happens in life more than I’d like to admit. We need to be strong and take it day by day. I know science may be tough, but you don’t have to get an A. Let’s just try to bump that up to a C. If you can do that, I will be so incredibly proud of you.
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