Friend of Bill's?
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Friend of Bill's?
This is a question I have been pondering...in your experience, do you find that most people who have been in the rooms of AA understand the 'code' of this question?
Random flotsam that floated to the surface of my brain this morning, lol!
Random flotsam that floated to the surface of my brain this morning, lol!
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Originally Posted by Seren 
This is a question I have been pondering...in your experience, do you find that most people who have been in the rooms of AA understand the 'code' of this question?
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Many years ago during my drinking
career, we pulled up behind a truck
at a light when i spotted a rear window
sticker saying.....Friend of Bill W's....
causing me to wonder who the heck
was Bill W..
Little did I know at that time it would
become a saying very important in my
own life.
After entering recovery on August 11th
1990, learning the AA program of recovery
and incorporating those important steps
and principles in all my affairs on a continuous
bases, I can honestly say that I am a
FOBW's when someone asks me or
I of them.
career, we pulled up behind a truck
at a light when i spotted a rear window
sticker saying.....Friend of Bill W's....
causing me to wonder who the heck
was Bill W..
Little did I know at that time it would
become a saying very important in my
own life.
After entering recovery on August 11th
1990, learning the AA program of recovery
and incorporating those important steps
and principles in all my affairs on a continuous
bases, I can honestly say that I am a
FOBW's when someone asks me or
I of them.
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Originally Posted by aasharon90
Many years ago during my drinking
career, we pulled up behind a truck
at a light when i spotted a rear window
sticker saying.....Friend of Bill W's....
causing me to wonder who the heck
was Bill W..
Little did I know at that time it would
become a saying very important in my
own life.
After entering recovery on August 11th
1990, learning the AA program of recovery
and incorporating those important steps
and principles in all my affairs on a continuous
bases, I can honestly say that I am a
FOBW's when someone asks me or
I of them.
career, we pulled up behind a truck
at a light when i spotted a rear window
sticker saying.....Friend of Bill W's....
causing me to wonder who the heck
was Bill W..
Little did I know at that time it would
become a saying very important in my
own life.
After entering recovery on August 11th
1990, learning the AA program of recovery
and incorporating those important steps
and principles in all my affairs on a continuous
bases, I can honestly say that I am a
FOBW's when someone asks me or
I of them.
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Congrats right back at ya Golfreggie and
thank you as we continue on our journey
each day with a new gift of friendship in
an awesome fellowship of AA.
I have a golf thread where i add the
new leaderboard for each weeks PGA
championship. Feel free to join in if
you have time to share who your favorite
player is or whom you are rootin for like
this weekends Arnold Palmers Invitational
held in Florida.
There's many good players out there
doing their best to reach Stenson and
Byson who are tied for 1st with -12.
thank you as we continue on our journey
each day with a new gift of friendship in
an awesome fellowship of AA.
I have a golf thread where i add the
new leaderboard for each weeks PGA
championship. Feel free to join in if
you have time to share who your favorite
player is or whom you are rootin for like
this weekends Arnold Palmers Invitational
held in Florida.
There's many good players out there
doing their best to reach Stenson and
Byson who are tied for 1st with -12.
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Friend of Bill here...
Funny thing is, I’ve only been asked that once, and it was pre-recovery. I was on a camping trip with some friends. It was supposed to be a backpacking trip, and the gals I was with don’t drink, I knew bringing alcohol would have really stood out. So I was grudgingly sober that week.
Another small group of women came to the otherwise empty campground, and one of them started talking to me. After a few remarks and slightly meaningful looks, she asked if we were “friends of bill.” I was utterly confused, but they had set off my “gaydar,” so I kind of nodded (cause we were lesbians too- it must have been international lesbian friends campout week and I hadn’t seen the memo... ) thinking maybe that was a Kentucky codeword or something. About mid-nod realized it probably meany something else... so I stopped nodding and admitted, “I’m sorry I’m not sure what that means?”
Of course she said “nothing,” and walked away. I was utterly confused, again. Then it dawned on me several minutes later that I’d heard that before, and what it meant. I almost ran to their campsite and said “no, but I should be!” But alas, it took me about four more years to sober up for good.
Funny thing is, I’ve only been asked that once, and it was pre-recovery. I was on a camping trip with some friends. It was supposed to be a backpacking trip, and the gals I was with don’t drink, I knew bringing alcohol would have really stood out. So I was grudgingly sober that week.
Another small group of women came to the otherwise empty campground, and one of them started talking to me. After a few remarks and slightly meaningful looks, she asked if we were “friends of bill.” I was utterly confused, but they had set off my “gaydar,” so I kind of nodded (cause we were lesbians too- it must have been international lesbian friends campout week and I hadn’t seen the memo... ) thinking maybe that was a Kentucky codeword or something. About mid-nod realized it probably meany something else... so I stopped nodding and admitted, “I’m sorry I’m not sure what that means?”
Of course she said “nothing,” and walked away. I was utterly confused, again. Then it dawned on me several minutes later that I’d heard that before, and what it meant. I almost ran to their campsite and said “no, but I should be!” But alas, it took me about four more years to sober up for good.
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Originally Posted by wehav2day
Another small group of women came to the otherwise empty campground, and one of them started talking to me. After a few remarks and slightly meaningful looks, she asked if we were “friends of bill.” I was utterly confused, but they had set off my “gaydar,” so I kind of nodded (cause we were lesbians too- it must have been international lesbian friends campout week and I hadn’t seen the memo... ) thinking maybe that was a Kentucky codeword or something.
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Originally Posted by 48heath
Yes always say this when I go to a meeting and I am not sure I am in the right place.Never met anyone who doesn’t understand.
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Originally Posted by wehav2day
Friend of Dorothy... wooo that’s an oldie but a goodie!
I have a lesbian friend who collects old-school "codes" for "I'm gay, are you gay too?". My personal favorite is "so, do you sing in the choir too?".
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Originally Posted by Sasha1972
I have a lesbian friend who collects old-school "codes" for "I'm gay, are you gay too?". My personal favorite is "so, do you sing in the choir too?".
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