Interesting/funny quotes/sayings you have heard in the rooms

[clouds]

Or probably more so, not reflected from thousands of pixels on a computer screen.

[Noels]

oh I love you to bits Clouds. You so funny nope. ... our saying in the group is definitely 'behind the curtains '. If you'd like I can send you our trusted servants number then you can ask him
Perhaps it's a computer screen in your group but what difference does it make? I'd say the curtain will be a more honest version since you can hide in every room and see how the alcoholic lives and reacts 24/7 don't you agree?
Anyways, have fun always a pleasure talking with you
Mwah xxx

[clouds]

Oh, oops. What I meant is that it is even harder to know what someone's sobriety is really like from a site like this, through pixels of words someone writes! Lol, YOU are funny, always light.

[Noels]

No problem Clouds thanks for clarifying Perhaps we are not supposed to be concerned with another's sobriety? So at the end of the day whether its pixels or computers or curtains .... it doesn't really matter. As long as we concentrate on our own sobriety and try to live our spiritual program to the best of our own ability.

Have an awesome day. I'm so glad we're chatting more often these days
Mwah xxx

[romiegoel]

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[clouds]

Yeah, if I'm looking at the quality of some one's sobriety it better be mine.

Being able to carry the message to others that there is a solution increases gratitude.

[ezdzit247]

The 12 Promises for Beginners

1. You will know your full name and address.
2. You will be able to shave without medical attention.
3. You will be able to dress and undress yourself.
4. You will know the city, state and country you are in.
5. You will be able to find socks that match.
6. You will be able to smoke without burning yourself, your clothes or the furniture.
7. You will lose the fear of eating.
8. You will spend less time in the bathroom.
9. You will be able to walk a straight line and pass the balloon test with flying colors.
10.You will lose the fear of police cars.
11.You will lose the fear of answering the door or the telephone.
12.You will realize the mess you've made of your life and the lives of those around you and be grateful to God for leading you to A.A.

[JohnDaniels]

Heard at a meeting

"I've been shot 3 times. Stabbed twice. This scar on the side of my head is from getting blind sided by a bottle of Thunderchicken. (starts to pull his pants down) and I got a scar down here I'm real fond of (stopped by chair person). Someone set an explosion under a pallet I was setting on that was so loud it left me deaf in one ear and half deaf in the other ear. I'm blind in one eye. I gimp when I walk. I have an artificial foot. This ear was cut off in a bar fight just because I bit the other guys nose off. I've had every bone in my body broken. But hey ... I'm in pretty good shape for the shape I'm in."

[Noels]

thanks JD Ive been away for a while but real glad to be back. I missed this group. You know - I used to regard this group as my home-group anyways .... good to be back

I heard quite a few in the rooms the other day ...... worthy of sharing ....

" you can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are ..."

then there was an old timer - two actually - one close to 8 years sober and another more than 30 years ... pfew! what a sobriety period! ... anyways, they said something to the effect that step 1 was all about honesty .... so you can imagine my shock when I saw them in a restaurant enjoying a glass of Bourbon!!!!!! ... ive kept my mouth shut up to now but I'm wondering if that's actually the right thing to do since they do plenty service work in AA - big shots and all .....

Anyways, that was pretty funny to me so I thought ill post it under the "we aren't a glum lot" section....

Nite nite, mwah xxxx Noels

[Newt Gingivitis]

Our purpose is to become fit for 'maximum service'.

[Newt Gingivitis]

I went to 5 thousand circular firing squads. We shoot anyone who won't go away and leave us alone. At some point, you stop going to meetings because, grasshopper, you are now 'fit for maximum service'. What is it to be of maximum service? Well, I am the only one who would offer an interpretation. And yet, I am not the only one who has wondered what it is to be 'of maximum service'. And yet, just read the black part. It doesn't say 'maximum service to AA'. It just says 'Maximum Service.'

[Tosh]

The comfort zone isn't that comfortable and nothing ever grows there.

[JeffS.]

When people would ask this one member why he could not drink he would say, "I am allergic". and when people would ask how or why he would say "Because it makes me break out in hand-cuffs". Hahaha that's just one I will never forget for some reason.

[innermost]

Kid I spilt more booze then you've drank.
Who you think was down there lick'n it up?