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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 07:26 AM
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"You Might Need to go to More Meetings!"
In the tradition of Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be A Redneck" routine, lets see how many we can come up with.

Add your example, then copy and paste the line "You Might Need to go to More Meetings!"

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If you walk into a meeting and everybody there comments on the fact that yout hair has gotten a lot longer since the last time they saw you?

"You Might Need to go to More Meetings!"

:hi:

RL
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 07:37 AM
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1. If you find yourself screaming at the traffic light for being red
You might need to go to More Meetings

:yoiks:
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 10:20 AM
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2. If you start yelling at the coffeemaker to
" Hurry Up!", whilst it perks the coffee,

You Might Need to go to More Meetings.

:D :hi:
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 03:00 PM
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3. or get more sleep
or a timer to start it earlier......

I dunno, I yell at the coffee maker every morning and mine takes less than two minutes to warm up enough to give me my espresso....


:rofl:
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 06:25 PM
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7. LOL!
a timer- now there's an idea!

:rofl: :pals:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 03:04 PM
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4. If you wonder when the clubhouse changed names from the Oxford Group to AA
You might need to get to more meetings. Or need a defibrillator.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 03:21 PM
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5. ROFL
now *that's* an old timer

hehehehe
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 06:08 PM
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6. If you find yourself renting a U-Haul
for the third time this year...

"You Might Need to go to More Meetings!"

:hi:

RL
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varkam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 08:59 PM
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8. Oh I'm not in a witty mood at the moment.
But I did want to say thanks for this thread. A member in my group commented that we have a tendency to lose our sense of humor - so this is much needed (for me at least)!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 11:05 PM
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9. When your sponsor introduces themselves to you and asks you for your name
You might need to go to more meetings
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 08:32 AM
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22. Hee, that's actually happened to me
then we laughed and I called him more often...

RL
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 05:02 PM
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10. If you always hear Step Seven as: "Were entirely ready for Him to remove these defective characters"
you might need more meetings.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 10:11 PM
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11. ...
:spray:

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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-29-08 10:10 AM
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13. LOL!
:rofl: :hi:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-01-08 10:47 PM
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21. It's the sixth step, isn't it.
Edited on Tue Apr-01-08 10:47 PM by Peake
I might need to go to more meetings.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-28-08 11:34 PM
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12. If you hear "The result was Neil until we let go absolutely"
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-29-08 11:28 AM
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14. a beloved oldtimer in my first homegroup was named Neil
he used to tell the story of his early days when he heard that exact thing. being a low bottom street wino when he got sober, he was sure he was the result

:rofl:

I loved that old guy. :loveya:
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-30-08 10:40 AM
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15. Aww- that's a neat story,AZDem.
" he was sure he was the result",

:rofl:

we tend to think that way, don't we?

:D
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-30-08 12:53 PM
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16. only and alkie could go to a football game, among tens of thousands of fans
and be convinced the guys in the huddle are talking about HIM

:rofl:
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-30-08 01:33 PM
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17. ROFL!
so true, so true!

:rofl:
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Justpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-01-08 07:33 PM
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18. You might need to go to more meetings
when even after many years of sobriety, you have not learned to engage brain
before opening mouth.

:cry:
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-01-08 07:35 PM
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19. sadly, my friend
no amount of meetings excuses us from being human ;)

:pals:
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Justpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-01-08 07:57 PM
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20. Thank you.

I need some forgiveness right now.

Thank God there are three meetings within walking distance from my apartment.

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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 12:33 AM
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23. When people introduce themselves to you and say "Welcome"
because they've never seen you before

maybe just maybe

you might need to go to more meetings :P
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 07:40 AM
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24. ...when we start to think that we need to go to less meetings.
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Justpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:17 AM
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25. You are right about that.

I started to think that because I have been sober for a long time that I could
just, well, cut back.

Yeah, that really worked. Somewhere after the twenty year mark, I really slacked off
on meetings. I didn't go for a long time. Then I started to get that feeling back
where I don't like myself very much because some old behaviors reappeared.

Then I realized that I am a alcoholic today, was yesterday, and will be tomorrow.
It does not go away and I can be happy and sober today if I use the steps and
keep the program and meetings foremost in my life today.

I truly believe that the mind of an alcoholic/addict is the eighth wonder of the
world.


As AZDem has said, once you become a pickle you can never go back to being a cucumber.
Or whatever the hell vegetable pickles are made from.


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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:30 AM
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26. take your pick
the possibilities are endless..... :hi:

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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-28-08 10:40 AM
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27. MMMMM Pickles!
:D
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