An Odd Phone Call

I had an odd phone call the other night. On answering a man asked if he was speaking to me and that he had found my details in the "Where To Find". He told me his name was the same as mine and then asked if he would be correct in assuming I had been around for a long time. Yes I said becoming sceptical. He then said would he be right in assuming I thought that scoungers on benefits should get a job and that wa spart of the programme, and would he be right in saying that I was sick of hearing about drug addictaion, food addiction and any thing else that was not to do with alcoholism being talked about in the rooms, and would he be right and syaing that AA as I knew it was marginalised and I was becoming more and more isolated.

I said that the only reason someone would use the Where To Find book and get my number out of it, is if they wanted to get to a meeting, that was the only reason someone should phone me.

With that he put the phone down. I checked the number and it was withheld. I guess this was a recruitment drive by the Primary Purpose Big Book Study. This people are starting to cut a swathe through AA in the UK. It will all end in tears and death for some, mark my words. I have seen this think before, yes, I have been around along time.

True the message has become watered down, but better to change the message inside than try and destroy the very thing that changed us.

Last friday I was told I was to be kept in employment which was nice, 125 people lost their jobs that day. Yesterday, Monday, we were all called in to be told that as of March next year the company will be reducing down from 300 to 100 so another 200 people will lose their jobs and that by the following december the company will close. I think its the gradually unremitting degradation that is getting to most people and it is showing in different ways.

Its a sad difficult time for all, the kind of times when a persons true character shows through.

Have a good week all of you.