Table for One

When I arrived in the rooms of AA, I often heard members say that they were “unemployable.” For my part, I still had a job (holding onto it mostly by blackmail), so I began turning the phrase around in my head when I realized that I was “undatable.” I could not get a date for love or money. I now realize that fall-down drunks only date other fall-down drunks. The fall-down drunks I knew were not asking to date me.