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Re: [sci fi, cab drivers mark sue joe chris orville redenbacher, strange flashbacks...
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| akaSteve 2004-08-30, 2:07 am |
| Congrats, Diana....
You're not a Pharisee. If you were true to AA you would have been
stoned. You, however, rose to the "Principles" and not the law. You
recognized that the "spirit" of sobriety had nothing to do with the
substance. XXXX the primary purpose.
akaSteve
On 29 Aug 2004 11:11:52 -0700, satispassion@my-deja.com (diana lyster)
wrote:
>well, i had a really trippy bizarre experience and trust me this is
>worth reading! here i was hanging out with AA people, just hanging
>out, smoking cigarettes on the couch, watching a sci fi movie about
>monsters and all kinds of crazy stuff, eating orville redenbacher's
>popcorn and drinking diet coke with lime, like, you know, no big
>deal... sue's in a bad mood cause she wants to watch some lame movie
>called 'jersey girl' and it was just one of those late nite meetings
>after the meeting, or so i think... we're at this guy chris's house
>(okay i changed names around a little bit because i didn't want to say
>guy A and guy B and girl C, etc.) anyway, this guy chris who talks
>about his MEDS a lot... he drives a cab which is cool but he's a
>frustrated screenwriter... i think everyone is a frustrated something.
> anyway, he goes in to take his meds and he comes back out after
>awhile and we smell POT. sort of just on him although it was this
>kind of incense-y type of place anyway. like it's 4:00 a.m. and we
>don't know quite what to make of it except that chris is cooler and
>more relaxed and the rest of us are kind of looking at each other like
>WTF -- is this for real or is this just something in our minds, you
>know?
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>long story short, he was smoking pot, because in AA it doesn't count
>in his mind or whatever, and that's okay for him, and we were like,
>okay that's okay but we've got to leave. but the smell, and pot was
>never my drug of choice. but all of a sudden i really wanted to smoke
>pot. and, if it had been just me and him, well, i'm hoping i would
>have maintained my sobriety but i don't know.
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>needless to say the rest of us left but we felt bad and weird. he's a
>really nice guy, just we can't be around alcohol and drugs cause we're
>addicts. anyway, maybe i'm just looking for attention here and a pat
>on the back like, good job, diana, you did the right thing for once.
>because, it is never easy to just say no but i know for a fact that it
>is the only thing i can do if i want to stay clean and sober. and i
>had the support of my buddies which was good. and, we pretty much had
>a meeting unto ourselves after we got out of there, like, wasn't that
>close, wasn't that scary, and wasn't that weird?
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>diana
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