and...... I kinda like you too, Dee :-)
When I heard people in meetings repeat over and over and over (I prayed that God would shot me now) that they were grateful alcoholics, I believe they meant that it was because they now had a "program for living" In fact when i asked someone what the Sam Hill he meant by that, he explained "If I hadn't become an alcoholic, I wouldn't have this program for living" Hmmmm.
I had even heard people saying they felt sorry for normies, because *they* didn't have a program for living. Hmmmm.....