tapped out

Me: That’s it. I have no new stories. Not one. I have written everything I can write.

Geoff: You said that last week and then you wrote five thousand words about a lifeboat.

Me: But that situation was totally, completely, irrevocably, one hundred and twelve percent different.

Geoff: Okay. Fine. I guess you’ll have to fill your days with Netflix then.

Me: Fine. I will.

ten minutes pass

Geoff: What are you writing?

Me: A story.

Geoff: I thought you were done writing stories.

Me: Yeah, but I didn’t mean it.

Geoff (throws up hands in disgust and walks away)