Alanis Morissette is smiling somewhere.
In a clear effort to make the next remix of Morissette’s “Irony,” an Alachua County Jail employee is making us shake our heads along the way.
Eugene Morris, a jail employee responsible for watching over the substance abuse program and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, spent his day off from jail musing on booze and beer — well, drinking.
And then, for some reason, coming to his place of employment: the jail.
We’re not one to pass judgments (we’ll leave that up to you), but we do enjoy a good, solid case of irony.
A substance abuse counselor and an Alcoholics Anonymous group leader coming to work on his day off drunk and staggering with beer-battered breath is like a vegetarian being spotted at Sonny’s All-You-Can-Eat-Pulled-Pork night with barbecue sauce dripping from his or her lips.
It’s like seeing Terry Jones in Mecca.
And, luckily, we are one to scold. We don’t have a problem with controlled enjoyment of alcohol, but we do have an issue with a man in a position of setting an example to current and recovering alcoholics not exactly practicing what he preaches.
And we do have a few questions for Morris, primarily why he would come to work on his day off after kicking back a few.
We just hope, for Morris’ sake, he had no black fly in his Chardonnay.
