It Doesn't Apply To Me

My sponsee, tom, is fond of saying, "It doesn't apply to me." He usually says this during a conversation about how a specific Step might shed light on his latest bout with unmanageability. The first two years that I sponsored him, I took the position that, yes, the Step did apply and that it was up to him to figure out how to apply it. Needless to say, he didn't apply what didn't apply to him, and, as a result, he got drunk twice in those two years.