barb dwyer

So I'm sitting back in the back of the apt, writing and reading here on SR.

I'm still kinda blissed out over the big sunset and the Scene next door
(posted thread in 12 step - Recovery in the Hood)
and all is well in my little sober world.

So there's a knock at the door and this girl walks in.

This is still the kind of town you don't have to actually lock your doors until you leave the house. And we watch out for each other on this street, so it's safe.

So I get up and walk up front.
Before I'm halfway toher, I can clearly see she's drunk.
She starts telling me she knows the guy who lives next door...

bla bla bla...

I wait and then tell her that a woman lives next door.
And that *I* lived there for two years before that.

She tells me, swaying on her feet,
that she used to party with a guy who lived there.
I'm like ...

I said that it's only been women here for three years
and that everyone in this building
is either in AA or NA.
Then I said, "Are you .... twenty ONE, yet?"

I think she actually stopped breathing.

You coulda counted
"5,6,7,8"
She spun around and was down the steps
like a drunk teenage rabbit.

I cracked up.

When I moved into this building
the guy in the apt below me
dealt drugs.

THAT is who she was looking for.

instead she got



I *WISH* I'd have had a pamphlet to hand her.

ha!

I love this street!

coffeenut

You write very well!

Thanks for sharing your experiences. This one cracked me up!

barb dwyer

thanks coffee - cracked me up, too.

I am grateful for my own perspective more often than not.
I was deeply imbedded with a comic appreciation of the ridiculous.

Wouldn't a pamphlett with meeting schedules been a HOOT, tho???

MagicMan08

I carry two meeting schedules in my wallet for that purpose. I have had friends pass out in completely wrong houses....very lucky they didn't get robbery. funny story

Dime

Isn't it amazing how obvious that sort of thing becomes when you get sober. Ever time I run in to one of those situations it makes me so grateful to be sober.

Congrats on quitting the cigs Barb!!!

Tazman53

Barb there was a day and a time I would have loved to had a drunk lady walk into my place to PARTY!!!! Glad those days are gone, life is simpler, saner, and far better today!

You must be a drunk/druggie magnet girl!

CAPTAINZING2000

I've done that myself back in the day looking for drugs etc.


At least, you feel safe enough to not have to lock your doors.

I never lock the doors to my house unless, I'm leaving for a while. I never lock the car doors unless, I'm leaving bags of something I purchased in my car to go to another store !

Aren't you glad, you're not the person she was looking for

nolaspiral

Clearly, you have never lived in the French Quarter.

Done_With_It

I don't even need to read your post.

I will just grin and nod...........

barb dwyer

DONE -

Check it out -

ROUNDUP - 2010 - BE THERE!!!!!

Start putting aside yer penniez now!!!!!

nolaspiral

Ugh, another cranky post! Was not intended as it came across.

edit: cranky AND jaded

ClaretandBlue

Not trying to compete, but I thought I'd share a video from my neighborhood. This guy is impressively drunk.