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A Hardboiled Egghead

An AA member talks about what it was like getting sober at 60

My biggest handicap getting sober later in life was twofold. One, I act like I know everything and two, I can't say those three words that old men hate: "I don't know." Now, add to this double debit the disease of alcoholism and you've got a hardboiled egghead too smart for his own sobriety.

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