Just for fun

comments about my appearance used to bother me a lot. One guy said to me one time, in front of everyone, that my eyes were red and I had a puffy face. (assuming I relapsed)
not knowing I had mowed the grass that morning.
I didn't bother to explain to the rude jerkoff.

having an oldtimer look at me and say some are sicker then others after my share

We had a Barbie like that. Always late, walked the the furtherest seat in the room, sat down, waited for about 20 minutes and got up to leave. Her name is Renee. Constantly talked about her ex molesting her son, which was always found to be untrue by SC, and how she needed a new daddy for her children. Never a word about drinking.

Why would anyone have to come back way below the belt? Something commensurate with what they've said should suffice.

1) When it is almost the last share and then someone walks in late to join.

2) When we are ready to say the closing prayer and someone reminds the group that we forgot to read the last two paragraphs of "A Vision for You."

3) When the leader asks, for example, if anyone is celebrating 90 days, and someone responds "I'll have 90 days next week."

I could go on here...

The Serenity Prayer, reading the steps, how it works, what is AA? The secretary's report, the treasurer's report, the AA related announcements, the angry guy demanding someone take over the coffee committment, the shrew complaining that the coffee guy forgot to buy milk, the old timer talking about his dogs for 10 minutes, the knitters, the lady with 5 plus years sober complaining that she can't go to a wedding alone because she doesn't want to be around the alcohol, they gasps when someone mentions drugs, the dead look in the eyes of 1/2 the people, the crazy look in the eyes of the other 1/2, the newcomer who shares his pain and begs for help only to be told "keep comin'! It gets better!" The thumpers quoting chapter and verse of the BB-never offering an original thought, the same old drunkalogues from the same old people, The Lord's Prayer.
And that's only the list of things I hated in the meeting I liked.

The main thing for me was when people talked like they knew what gawd's will was. It's always been my opinion that people who know what gawd's will is, are at best off their rockers, and at worst, dangerous.

who argued that AA's abysmal success rate could be rectified by returning to the original Oxford Group template, the 4 absolutes. Wait a second - that's what led me to the Orange Papers! Yes, my tenuous belief in a hp (of my own choosing), was so fragile that that any talk of a quasi-Christian god threatened it. So I started investigating ... and here I am. Thankyou old-timer.

the whining & complaining members, crying & bitching about every day little inconveniences. the dirtballs looking me over, sizing me up as prey, strutting around in their cut off t-shirts & showing all their ink & actually thinking they were hot, when they were disgusting. then they would find out who my siblings were & back off. the know it all's, with no education or qualifications whatsoever who knew everything about anything. the way no one ever responds directly to the person who just shared & the person sharing just doesn't know when to stop talking, they lack any confidence or poise or the ability to express themselves articulately. then the scumbag who would put them down passive aggressively a share or two later, instead of communicating like an adult & speaking directly to the person they were belittling. the worst, absolute worse was people who were in serious trouble not being advised to get to a hospital, an ER, get medical or psychiatric attention immediately, leave this meeting now & go get qualified help, no instead they would be outright ignored or told to "go with the women". the members who someone should have called a cop on or should have done something about their anger & rage, were just thanked for sharing & no one dared said a passive aggressive put down to the dangerously angry members. the whole thing just made me sick, I can't think of one redeeming quality about AA or Anon.

The blokes that would lurch forward, arms outstretched, in hope of getting the only contact that they could ever possibly get with a female body (that they didn't have to pay for), who would be visibly offended when you pushed them back with your left hand and offered them your right hand for a hand shake instead. Or the extended handshake - again, contact with a female where payment was not required.

Yep, the domestic violence drunkalogues that were met with laughter in the rooms.

10) People who announce their sobriety birthday more than a week afterwards. For instance, "I had 18 months two weeks ago." See 3) in my above post.

@becket and Jj,

groups break off into smaller ones. Typically because the original group at the start of the meeting is to large.

Penny wrote:
6). Whenever the leader ask whether we should break off into smaller groups and someone suggest we stay in one group, thereby (roughly) doubling the length of the meeting.

instead of saying no the meeting is over they would let him share. He would go on for another 10 minutes. I don't know about anyone else here but there were times I had to get going, I had other commitments. I hated getting up while someone was sharing.

Who shares about how they didn't come here to hear this crap, They came because they needed a reason not to drink today

Fucking loser. 20 years later and you need a reason to not drink, you're a dry drunk.