13th Step (was: Re: List Occupants)

[Guest guest]

Now now , no need to hide behind this " a woman " facade. Welall

know you're talking about yourself!

P.

> Someone wrote, " Also, I've know of guys with no drinking problem who

attended AA to

> meet women. "

>

> And Steve wrote, " Some women do that too. "

>

> Oh my, yes. This evokes a trip down memory lane....a woman joined

AA and made quite a big

> splash at meetings, carrying on about how she'd been so dreadfully

drunk that her mother

> had to come and drag her out of the bar. Her mother, who was a

long-term AA member shook

> her head and looked bewildered and murmured to the person next to

her, " I never had to

> drag her out of a bar. She never drank that much at all. "

>

> But the woman was getting attention. At other meetings she'd do the

same thing; tell some

> gawd-awful drunk story, and her mother would look embarassed and

mutter, " I don't know why

> she tells those crazy lies. "

>

> Uh, 'cause it gets her attention, that's why. And she sure got

attention. The men

> flocked around her. And she'd hook up with one of them and date him

and take him to bed

> and he'd be the Love Of Her Life - for a week or so. And then she'd

dump him and go on to

> the next man. She went through the men in the program like

compulsive overeaters go

> through a bag of M & M's, and there was a lot of snickering about who

would be the Man of

> the Week this week, and a lot of embarrassed and pissed-off men.

>

> Then she vanished for a while - but she was not gone forever. She'd

been going to school

> to become a Drug and Alcohol Counselor. And she got a job at New

Beginnings at Cove Forge

> Rehab, that dubious place my Partner was interning at and getting

into head-butting

> contests over the issue of forcing the clients to believe in God

against their wills.

>

> And this woman would come to meetings and look all wise and superior

and preface her

> shares with, " ...when I counsel my clients at the Cove, I always

tell them.... "

> Eventually she got involved with one of her clients - he became the

Man of the Week or

> Month or however long the period was by that time, and they moved in

together, just long

> enough for her to leave her job - or get booted for getting sexual

with a client or

> whatever.

>

> So yeah, women can do this, too. (And her mother muttered, " ...she

isn't even an

> alcoholic....she shouldn't be here... " )

>

> Cheers,

>

> nz