Amusing anecdote
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Amusing anecdote
The following happened last night at an AA meeting I attended.
The meeting was at a house that is owned by the local intergroup office. No one lives there. It's used exclusively for meetings and recovery functions. Meetings include AA, NA, Al-Anon, etc. There are several meetings a day there, every day.
It's an old victorian mansion with many rooms, HUGE. It's not uncommon for both AA and Al-Anon meetings to be happening at the same time on different floors with small groups splitting up and each meeting using multiple rooms.
There was a bit of confusion with the small group I was in. It was supposed to be in the basement, but we found our way to a room on the 1st floor instead. There was an Al-Anon meeting going on at the same time on the 1st floor, but they had not yet split into small groups - leaving one room vacant at that moment.
During our discussion, we were interrupted by an Al-Anon participant who explained they were supposed to have access to the room we were in at the time and we needed to be in the basement.
My observations:
We happened to be discussing Step 10. We were wrong (in the wrong room) and we promptly admitted it (and moved to the basement).
The Al-Anon group had to be assertive with the alcoholics in telling us about a boundary we crossed (their room at that time, not ours).
Two programs of recovery in action simultaneously... anyway, I found it to be somewhat amusing.
The meeting was at a house that is owned by the local intergroup office. No one lives there. It's used exclusively for meetings and recovery functions. Meetings include AA, NA, Al-Anon, etc. There are several meetings a day there, every day.
It's an old victorian mansion with many rooms, HUGE. It's not uncommon for both AA and Al-Anon meetings to be happening at the same time on different floors with small groups splitting up and each meeting using multiple rooms.
There was a bit of confusion with the small group I was in. It was supposed to be in the basement, but we found our way to a room on the 1st floor instead. There was an Al-Anon meeting going on at the same time on the 1st floor, but they had not yet split into small groups - leaving one room vacant at that moment.
During our discussion, we were interrupted by an Al-Anon participant who explained they were supposed to have access to the room we were in at the time and we needed to be in the basement.
My observations:
We happened to be discussing Step 10. We were wrong (in the wrong room) and we promptly admitted it (and moved to the basement).
The Al-Anon group had to be assertive with the alcoholics in telling us about a boundary we crossed (their room at that time, not ours).
Two programs of recovery in action simultaneously... anyway, I found it to be somewhat amusing.
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