randomly met someone from AA and got reminded why I hate them
Meet John, 34 years old, who goes to 4 meetings a week and is his 1433rd day in recovery. He likes going to meetings so much, that yesterday he went to one and drove to the next city to join another one on the same day. How I know? He told me and everyone around and couldnt keep a single detail to himself.
John is a coworker of a friend of mine and although he wasnt invited, he still showed up to my group of friends having dinner. Since he is the star of the party (because he got sober) he took over 90% of the talking and could only speak about one thing: his sobriety, his recovery and his stupid medals. Eventhough no one wanted to hear his boring stories he still couldnt shut up about them and how bad of a person he was in the past (John was a major alcoholic who drank four beers a day all by himself and texted people afterwards).
Thanks to this asshole all my friends now believe that Im the same as John living in victimhood and making everything about myself. despite not even talking about alcohol they think that Im struggling hard not to drink because John is. Suddenly I got asked about my days in rEcOvErY and after saying "around 11 months" I got asked why I dont know the day of me "getting my life back".
Thank fucking you John and your cult for having me to reprogram my group of friends from all the BS you have told. guy was awful btw and people still joke about him and his "amazing journey". I got sober through rehab and everyone knows. I have never talked about alcohol and only answered questions about how I feel when my friends drink in front of me and suddenly I feel the urge to correct everything Mr. Alcoholic Anonymous said