Defrosting Room

The Fort Worth Group of Alcoholics Anonymous rents their clubhouse from an individual who also owns and operates a comfortable residential hotel. In that hotel the group keeps, from day to day, a room rented for the purpose of "defrosting" prospective and worthy people that ultimately become members of this group--and they come in from three and four hundred miles away. Many days and weeks we have three-rooms-in-a-row-busy. The three in a row are sometimes called "The Bridal Suite", "The Rest Room" and "The Honeymoon's Over." These last names were coined by the Hotel PBX Operator but the "Defrosting" room was and is first in the hearts of many of these Fort Worth members and our group dispatcher reminds many members each week that they are needed for two-hour service and attendance in that room to help others just as they were helped.