How To Hide Something From An Alcoholic

This post is for all those who are, or qualify to be, Al-Anons. If you don’t want “your alcoholic” to find something – it’s simple…

Find their copy of the Big Book and put what you want to hide in it – anywhere will do. “They” rarely, if ever open it! Now… if, by chance, they do open their Big Book and find what you’ve hidden, the next best place to hide something is in the 12 Steps & 12 Traditions!

As a very last resort, if the most improbable happens and they look in those books and find what you’ve hidden, take it to their sponsor. They never call them!

From the AA History Lovers Group at Yahoo!;

Someone was looking for info on Dr. Paul O. (“Doctor, Addict and Alcoholic” or “Acceptance Was The Answer” – same story) and Alex H answers with information on Attitude Adjustment meetings that Dr. Paul apparently began in Pomona, California. It seems Dr. Paul had a protégé, Jerry B., who carried these types of meetings into Orange County. This is where I got the title for this post (not that I hadn’t heard the sentiment expressed before…).

Alex tells us;

“Jerry wanted to run the meeting from the pages we had copied in a binder, but I nixed that idea. We were already fighting the “Christianizing” accusation pretty hard and people would be suspicious that we were slipping in Christian prayers so I suggested that we pull all our readings directly from the “Big Book”, the “12 and 12″ and the “24 Hour” book (because that is where we copied them from originally). The 24 Hour book was not AA approved literature, but it was ubiquitous in Orange County. No one was going to squawk if we read from it. We knew that.

So Jerry called up volunteers to read the various sections from these books as the meeting went along. You should have seen the amazement in their eyes. I swear… if you want to hide something from an alcoholic, put it in an AA book. These guys acted as if this was the first time they had ever heard these words of prayer and meditation.”