You’re a drug addict, fine! We hold no judgment against you and what you do. At your age I take it that you do stop, look and listen before crossing the street. There exists a dilemma, however, and the dilemma is this: When you do decide to go from your silly 3-day sobriety to your next oh-so-sweet high, the problem is that this home - free of the poison you so lovingly inhale - becomes a necessary stop to get there. Do not bring your addiction to this house and lean on us to get your next fix.
Do not drive all the way here from wherever you’ve come from, jittery and sweat-browed on a cool evening to ask your brother’s sons for “gas money.” Do not ask to give you a ride to a certain location just off a main road, tucked away in a seemingly innocent neighborhood. Do not use this home’s phone number as your own to receive calls from suspicious strangers. Don’t ask to borrow a car, say you’ll be away for a little awhile only to return 9 hours later, 3:00 A.M. in the morning. When asked about where you were while away, don’t play us for a fool and claim you “played Scrabble.”
Again we say that no judgment is held against you but the lies you do tell scream loud over what we choose not to say. The extent of your lean is made obvious by the fiction you create. Along with those stories exists a monument of fact: When and where the mere whispers of your habit do arise you mockingly piss on those concerned. And though you hover in your high, you come back down again and you find yourself asking for “gas money.” We don’t have “gas money” but we might have “drug money,” would you care to take that?
If you can’t support your habit, maybe you should quit? When you find yourself scavenging every nook and cranny for a fix you can’t afford, that’s a sign. Take a look at your wallet. If you fueled your car instead of your addiction, you wouldn’t have to ask. You eagerly grab your beggar's dollar for the one unoffending but it's still connected to the other. So don’t ask. Do not ask us for we will not support what you choose to do. We will not give you a ride, nor will we give you money. We will not in any way play the role of an enabler for your precious fix. Although you feed us lies, we tell you this quite plainly so stop, look, and listen, “This house, this home will not be a stop to your next high.”
