Posted by Phil on September 8, 2001, at 9:06:30
In reply to Re: Bikes and booze. » Greg A., posted by sar on September 8, 2001, at 1:28:19
My best friend 25 years ago was a guy named Joe Guerrero. I loved this guy like a brother. We drank together and I even taught him how to drive a motorcycle(we weren't drinking at the time).
One night Joe got drunk, I know he was going thru hard times, and went thru a barbed wire fence on someones motorcycle. He didn't live to tell me about it.
I watched my mother go from a beautiful, charming and loving parent to being committed to the State Hospital in San Antonio when I was 15. There was no Betty Ford then.
After several desperate attempts and several 'programs' to get sober, she finally did in 1975. She died in '93, 18 years sober and available to me and that little kid in me that has never really learned to trust. AA was the only thing that worked and I was so very proud of her. We celebrated her birthday and her sobriety bithdays.
If you think you have a problem with alcohol, you do. Go to an AA meeting and just listen. If called upon, just say your first name and that you would rather not speak. You will hear your story.
Rambling Phil
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