Intervention — When a group of loved ones and concerned friends gang up and get even with you.
This definition comes from the glossary of Rotten Coffee & Old Timers. To learn more about the book go here.
Six Pack Abs: Marathon Meeting
Marathon Meeting — Meeting where everyone seems to share for 26 minutes.
This definition comes from the glossary of Rotten Coffee & Old Timers. To learn more about the book go here.
Six Pack Abs: If You Want What We Have
If You Want What We Have — There is something really wrong with you.
This definition comes from the glossary of Rotten Coffee & Old Timers. To learn more about the book go here.
Meeting of the mind
I’m pretty sure this is what I look like at meetings lately. The topic gets tossed out into the meeting like chum, and all the speechifying sharks tear into it with all the bravado they can muster, while I sit there with nary a thought in my head. I used to be quite a Cicero myself, pontificating with the best of them, but around the sixth year of my sobriety I grew disillusioned by my desire to always sound good in a meeting. So, I took a vow of silence. I stopped volunteering my opinion in meetings, because I seemed more interested in impressing you than talking honestly about myself. And I only shared in small meetings where everyone talked (one of the things a sponsor told me long ago was to find a small meeting where everyone shared every week, thus I wouldn’t be able to hide out solely in big meetings) or if someone called on me, which seldom happened, because most meetings have a fair share of Ciceros who are desperately trying to impress you, so they can feel good about themselves.
Now it’s twenty years later and I sit in meetings without the mental muscles to come up with anything to say while the meeting is going on. Since I write as an outlet. I usually have time to get my thoughts out in a thorough, contemplative fashion. But that kind of thought process is worthless in meetings, making me feel like the jeopardy contestant who can’t get the damn signaling button to work quick enough. Three times this week, something I would’ve wanted to say in the meeting finally came to me on the ride home. Too late to be of much use.
And lately, I’ve been trying to become more useful. I’ve been trying to be a more active participant in AA, but my brain just doesn’t seem able anymore to come up with the pithy, the humorous, the touching, the inspirational in an hour’s time frame.
So I sit there looking like this.
Six Pack Abs: Retox Center
Retox Center — Where the typical alcoholic goes after getting out of a detox center.
This definition comes from the glossary of Rotten Coffee & Old Timers. To learn more about the book go here.
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