I love to speak at meetings. I frequently tell my "war stories" because it helps the newcomer to identify. It also proves that I belong in AA. I'm a real alcoholic who went from a nice condo to a dumpster in an alley with rats the size of cats! I also talk about how AA never worked for me until I started doing service work on a daily basis. Answering the AA hotline, making coffee, chairing meetings, organizing sober activities, handing out my phone number ect....