The Tales of Jerry (Short Story Comedy With A Lesson)
Once upon a time (now) there was this dude named Jerry. His secret is that he loves Subway. Of course with most secrets he doesn’t want anybody to know, so he devised a plan to hide the addiction. The plan is to go to Subway, which is the most important part of said plan. Then if he sees anybody, mainly his friends, he would jump in the dumpster to hide from them until they pass. If they are too close for him to run to the dumpster, he would keep walking and pass up the store trying to play it off.
With his idea in mind, he gets hungry, and of course the first thing that pops into his mind is Subway. So getting ready to go, he gets all of his things together, making sure he has his wallet, then walks out and locks his house up. He takes off toward the sandwich shop and keeps a close eye out for unwanted overlookers. Finally arriving, and making sure the coast is clear, he opens the door and walks in.
Walking up to the counter the worker greets him, “Hi welcome to Subway, how may I help you?”
Staring at the menu for a moment, he replies, “I will take a meatball sub.”
“Alrighty.” She starts making the sandwich and gets halfway through the process and he sees his friend walking down the road about 50 feet away. Turning back to the worker he grabs the unfinished food and puts the money on the counter and sprints out with it.
He turns the corner and trips throwing the sub on the ground. Looking at it not thinking twice he runs over to the dumpster, jumps in, and huddles down. Waiting for the friend to pass he looks down and sees that a bunch of sauce had spilled all over his leg, “Agh!”
Now getting aggravated he hears footsteps coming towards the bin, “Jerry is that you? Are you Alright?”
Replying in a slightly worried tone, “oh yeah I’m fine…. I…. I just slipped and fell in here.” Trying to make it sound as convincing as he can.
“Alright just making sure. You should come get a sub or something, I’ve heard that the meatball subs from this place are unreal.” The friend walks away and into the store.
Jerry screams loudly, “AHHHH!!!!!!” Then he realizes he should probably cut back on the amount of sandwiches he eats from Subway. “Nah.” He laughs and walks into Subway and orders everything on the menu.
(Que sad music.) Two days later Jerry passed away from an overdose of calories. His addiction had grown strong and consumed him and his habits. Before he passed away he said, “At least I got all the Subway I could.” He loved every second of it.
Addiction is powerful in lots ways. It can and has taken lives of many people. The numbers of fatalities are large and continue to grow by the day. Don’t be one that get their life taken from abuse of medicinal substances or drugs or anything. Don’t get addicted. Don’t do drugs or anything of the sort.
-Isaac