1. You drink more coffee per day than Starbucks sells in one week. 2. Emails to your friends have "HALT" as the subject header. 3. You and your buddies get thrown out of espresso bars and teahouses for being "too rowdy." 4. Songs like "There's a Tear In My Beer" make you cry for reasons different than most people. 5. For parties with your friends, you buy a couple cases of Mountain Dew and Pepsi-Cola. 6. Dining out, you wonder how someone at the next table can drink half a glass of wine and leave the rest. 7. There is at least one magnet on your refrigerator, plaque on your wall, or bumper-sticker on your car with an inspirational message printed on it. 8. You don't know the last names of most of your best friends. 9. If you need advice on money, you ask the guy in your meeting who used to be bankrupt. 10. When you empty your purse or pockets you find at least one of the following: an anniversary chip, scraps of paper with phone numbers of people you met in meetings, pocket-sized Big Book, wallet-sized Preamble. 11. Your idea of a pick-up line is, "I really liked what you shared." 12. No matter how bad a day you had, if you go to bed clean and sober, you consider yourself a winner!
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
THAT reminds me of a funeral I went to once for close friend, a guy who had three worlds that rarely mixed- construction work, canoe racing and NA/AA. By the time the last person got up and spoke I knew the canoe paddlers were itching for a beer and the construction workers wanted to chop up and snort his ashes. The rest of us were fine.
