Further Akron AA lunacy

[Guest guest]

On the rare occasions I have thoughts of drinking, I always think

back to the problems it caused for me, or look at the difficulty it caused

in someone else's life.

Now, if I have one of those fleeting thoughts of going to a meeting,

I'm going to check out the Akron AA site:

" One of my all-time favorite stories was told a couple of years

ago....

" He said that when he was new in sobriety he could not believe how

good everything was going in his life. His job was great, his home life was

unbelievably pleasant and he seemed to be floating on a cloud. He was,

however, troubled by how much pain and misfortune his sponsor seemed to be

enduring. He did not understand the apparent injustice of it all. Here his

sponsor had more sobriety than anyone else around. He was a wise old man who

worked with a great many new guys, helping them all trudge that road of

happy destiny, yet personally he seemed to be going through a living hell.

If anyone deserved some grace, it was he. "

" So, one night on the way home from a meeting, he decided to talk to

his sponsor about it. As he was driving along (his sponsor's car had

recently died), he was expounding on his own personal and, admittedly,

undeserved good fortune and comparing it to what he felt was the unfair hand

that his mentor seemed to have been dealt. He confessed a bit of

embarrassment about it all and told the old-timer that it just did not seem

fair. Then he sat there waiting to hear some good old AA wisdom. The old guy

just sat quietly staring out the side window. After a long silence, he

turned his head and said, 'Maybe God just thinks you're a wuss.' "

Damn, what's the use of living a happy, productive life when you can

be a miserable AA oldtimer with lots of problems, far superior to your

sponsees who have the gall to actually own a car that *runs*!

I wonder if this guy dumped his wife because she didn't recite the

correct mantra at meetings....

-- Bob Marshall