Heard in meetings - unoffical AA sayings

[lizw]

I'd love to read any unoffical sayings people hear in meetings, good, bad, funny, serious or otherwise....

Here's a few examples off the top of my head:

Meeting makers make it

At some point in my life, I told God to go to hell, but he stayed where he was and I went there instead

You can't believe in God and play God at the same time

You can't live one way and pray another

[PaulN]

It's not the meetings you make, it's the steps you take.

[Clutch B]

"We're all here because we're not all there."

"Keep coming back. It works if you work it, and it sucks if you don't."

"'At some of these we balked ... ' (Bawwwk! Bawwwk! Bawwwk!)"

"Suit up and show up."

"If 'God' scares you out, Jim Beam will scare you back in."

"For every meeting, there are three meetings: (1) The meeting before the meeting, (2) the meeting, and (3) the meeting after the meeting. Attend all three meetings."

"Go to meetings until you WANT to go to meetings. Then go to meetings."

"If you feel like you don't belong, volunteer."

"Beware of HALT! (H)ungry, (A)ngry, (L)onely, (T)ired"

"RTFM: (R)ead (T)he (F)reaking (M)anual."

"You've got to give it away to keep it."

"Are these extravagant promises? H*ll no! (We think not!)"

[TTOSBT]

AA is a program for those that want it, not necessarily everyone that needs it.

[lizw]

There are 2 times when you ought to go to meetings.
1. when you want to go
2. when you don't want to go

[DSodaNow]

Fake it until you make it.

[stone]

I don't think I ever heard anyone say "Take what you need and leave the rest" in a meeting but I have heard some people say it on SR.

I don't think it would go down very well at a meeting, lol.

[TTOSBT]

Suit up and show up

[todd6138]

take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth; get off of your pity pot;

[DSodaNow]

If you feel like drinking.... put the chip in your mouth and when it melts you can drink.

[todd6138]

put the plug in the jug; meeting makers make it

[sugErspun]

Don't drink no matter what.
Call your sponsor.
Men shouldn't sponsor women and vice versa.
Every day just make a choice not to drink.
We give out chips for various lengths of sobriety.
Let us love you until you can love yourself.
90 meetings in 90 days.
The most important person in the room is the newcomer.
I need to work on my defects of character.


Happy birthday to you.

[TTOSBT]

Originally Posted by todd6138

take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth; get off of your pity pot;

Todd, this reminded me!
If you want, you can sit on your pity pot but eventually you have to get up and flush or you are gonna drink.

[Boleo]

1. It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it.

2. If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and look at whom you're trying to impress.

3. An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating - (as opposed to the gregarious isolator)

4. Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse.

5. A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that AA meetings are free.

6. The idea that alcoholics, drug addicts, sex addicts, overeaters, smokers, etc, etc, should all just go to AA meetings because a disease is a disease is a disease...was started by a treatment center that only had one van.

7. This is a 'One Day at a Time' program. If you are clean and sober today, you are tied for first place in AA.

8. If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

9. I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes me feel.

10. When I was new, I didn't think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.

11. How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

12. From a newcomer reading the 'Promises' for the first time: We will comprehend the word cemetery and we will know peace.

13. If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn't be big enough to be God!

14. If you want to quit drinking, you are going to have to quit drinking.

15. Newcomer: How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week? Old-timer: Gradually cut back until you drink. Then, you'll know.

16. I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not an alcoholic.

17. Resentments are like stray cats: if you don't feed them, they'll go away.

18. The difference between a problem drinker and an Alcoholic is that:

A) When alcohol is taken away from the problem drinker, the problem goes away;

B) When alcohol is taken away from the alcoholic, the problem begins.

19. Before I came into AA, I was dead, but I did not know enough to lie down.

20. I drank when I was happy. I drank when I was unhappy. Actually, I am a reason to drink.

21. You don't have to be sick to want to get well. But if you don't want to get well, you ARE sick.

22. The good news is you get your emotions back; the bad news is you get your emotions back.

23. All we ask is that you completely change your attitude as soon as possible.

24. I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

25. Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

[lizw]

AA is like a carousel.
The closer you are to the middle, the harder it is to fall off.

[findingout]

Keep coming back and we'll teach you a better way to live.

[lizw]

I'm not much but I'm all I think about.

[Celebration1994]

If I take me out of blame...all I have is bla..bla..bla

Have a good day unless you plan it different

[Dee74]

it's anonym-us, not anony-me.

do I win ?

LOL

D

[FightingIrish]

"My first sponsor was tough: nothing I did ever impressed him. I went to meetings; I made coffee; I always showed up on time. One day I asked him, 'doesn't anything I do ever impress you?' He paused for a moment, then replied, 'yes, I'm impressed that you have been able to stay sober...'"

[lizw]

These are great. Some of them are so funny!
The more I read the more it prompts my memory.

Chapter 5 ......but there is one who has all power and that one is...not you

[Rob B]

Here's my favorite: the combo of step 1 and 12

my life sucks, now I'm going to tell you all about it.

[tiburon88]

"Stick With The Winner". I guess there is losers in AA huh.

[SlvrMag]

"Try NA or AA for a year, if your not satisfied your misery can be refunded"

[sailorjohn]

The old timer used to attend the meetings at the nursing home, he ended up a resident there, but would still attend the meetings, had about 30 years sobriety. "Ain't it great to be sober!" Yeah, it really is. Another one I just remembered.

Came
Came to.
Came to believe

I'm a little slow, never quite understood what the "came to" bit was, then it finally registered.