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August 2004

We Needed the Job

An anecdote about action

I had my latest drink (and last, with the grace of my Higher Power and the help of Alcoholics Anonymous) on Friday, July 13, 1979. My first meeting was a Monday night speaker meeting. I arrived after the meeting started, just so I could say I went, but the person on the intergroup phone did not mention that drunks hang around after the meeting. They got me!

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