Tips For A Sober and Joyous Holiday Season – Keep ‘Em Hot and Charged!

This really hasn’t changed except for the physical location, which is now on my hip!

9) “Keep that phone running hot. Other alkies are feeling as restless as you during the festive season. They will appreciate a ‘how are you doing?’ call just as much as you will appreciate talking to them.”

Please, make sure you put them on silent mode or vibrate during meetings, okay? But keep your phone charged at all times for the next week or so!

Funny – I never thought I’d be hooked up to the world 24/7 yet I am today. And it can be irritating especially when you self-centered alkies want to talk at the same time my boss wants some work out of me but it remains my lifeline. So I make sure it is charged every day when I leave home.

How many of you remember when we used to tape a quarter on the back of the white chips we gave out at beginner’s meetings? I’ll bet there are those of you who remember quarters being dimes eh? Then we told the newcomer to put their sponsor’s phone number on the other side.

And it worked…