The Schizophrenic Tea Drinker

The Schizophrenic Tea Drinker An Allegorical Tale By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar John Sloane was a business major at Widemount University. He just got back from a senior year abroad in Europe where he studied economics at the University of London, in England. John moved back home with his parents Sally and George Sloane and started interviewing for jobs. It was around 9:00 a.m. and John was eating some toast for breakfast at the kitchen table at home, and was drinking some tea, a habit which he picked up in England. In fact he was drinking tea with cream mixed in like they do in London. Sally and George Sloane were concerned about their son John. John was acting strangely since he got back from Europe. His parents were concerned that John had joined some strange organization or religion. Instead of eating bacon and eggs with hot chocolate for breakfast every morning, John was drinking hot tea with cream. A horrible concoction. John’s parents suspected John was mentally ill and called a psychiatrist on the phone. Sally and George Sloane told the psychiatrist, Dr. Smith, that their son John was acting in a strange manner. John wasn’t eating normally, and he was drinking some outlandish concoction of hot tea with cream. Dr. Smith agreed with Sally and George Sloane that John was obviously schizophrenic, and had John involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward for observation.

After a year of pschiatric medication John was better. He was now eating eggs and bacon for breakfast with hot chocolate and no tea with cream. His parents were happy that the medication for schizophrenia was working. John tried to argue that he was just drinking tea and eating toast like everybody else in London, but his psychiatrist and his parents decided this was simply delusional thinking. THE END