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September 1965

The Trouble Was, I Wasn't Ornamental

An AA comments on a recent sociological study of the different social and personal motives people have for drinking

WHEN we were on the juice, most of us used to think that we were pretty thoroughly misunderstood. Our wives or husbands didn't understand us; our bosses didn't understand us; our friends and our enemies didn't understand us, and, of course, after a while, even the bartender didn't understand us.

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