Alcoholics Anonymous meetings open to all
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Editor,
If you drink and can’t usually stop after drinking the first one or two beers, a glass of wine or two, one or two shot glasses of hard liquor, whiskey, vodka, or gin, chances are that you are an alcoholic. I became an alcoholic right soon after I took my first drink of beer because I got drunk right away, and the next time I drank, I drank hard liquor; vodka mixed with 7-Up. I got drunk and tipsy.
To make a long story short, I was introduced to Alcoholic’s Anonymous way back in 1972. I didn’t like it. It wasn’t for me; I didn’t like the people who went to it. I was a cranky, miserable man. I battled the booze problem for over 40 years. To make a long story short, within those years I went to jails, hospitals, detoxes, churches, God’s way, religion, skid row for 10 years, and finally prison for three and a half years, got out, seen the light, became a changed man, and came home.
I’m a strong member of Alcoholics Anonymous, Wednesday nights at the Alano club in Polson at 7 p.m. The meetings are open and you don’t have to be an alcoholic to go to them. If you are shy or bashful people will welcome you there. It is a good place to go. It’s a caring, loving and healing place.
The letter “O” in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting schedule means an “open meeting” for anyone — you don’t have to be an alcoholic.
And first off, alcoholics are not somebody who comes out of the gutter or a dungeon or a dump. They are very smart ordinary people with families, jobs, nice homes, a good upbringing and live in a good community. The only problem they have is that after one first drink of liquor they cannot stop. It’s just as simple as that. As simple as Simon. A very sad thing indeed — I for one.
Roger Bordeaux
Polson
