Member-only story
History
Alcohol, Machine Gun Scars, and Developing a Caffeine Habit
Every alcoholic needs a good and patient sponsor
To successfully navigate the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, one must have a sponsor to steer the drunk from continuing on his or her destructive path.
My dad had just such a sponsor. He is the guy in the photo (below).
I’ve listened to my dad, through smoke-filled rooms, give testimony to his life with and without alcohol.
I preferred without.
Thankfully, he did too.
After sitting through more than a few AA meetings, I’m convinced that all alcoholics really just trade the alcohol for coffee and cigarettes. In our little town in South Alabama, there was a house on the banks of a small river. In this house, converted to a meeting place, I heard my dad give most of his AA talks and, not coincidentally, where I learned to drink coffee.
You might be forgiven for thinking that the guy standing to the right of my dad was actually, KFC Colonel Sanders.
It sure looks like him.
I halfway expect him to pull out a bucket of fried chicken — original recipe!
