What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen or heard at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting?

Question

(No names, please.)

Answer 1

I once heard someone say that any time he had a desire to drink they would just say "Jesus Christ" 3 times and the desire would go away. I then asked him why he attended meetings when he had such an awesome strategy working for him. No answer.

I stood on the steps and watched a guy drive up, get out of his car, take a pee right there in front of everyone and then come into the meeting and sit down. He smelled of ETOH.

I watched a guy take a sweater off and then put it on like a pair of pants.

Me and another guy counted the 'Fu*ks' in a guys share and it came to 44 , he even managed to use it back to back which left us amazed at his oratory skills.

Answer 2

"Hello my name is ...... and I'm a diseased, self-centered, insane person with a perpetuously broken coper," is how I would sometimes introduce myself during the end of my 21 year stint in eh and eh. Hey Christi- part of anonymity means you do not attribute what is said to any one person. Members are not usually anon. with each other. They gladly tell slogan-strewed stories from meetings, but just try to leave out the person's name. Anonymity probably should be broken in extreme criminal cases like pedophilia, or this: Once in the late 80's a dude admitted to the details of a Chicago murder during a meeting I attended at the Reno Driar's Club. Alcoholics Anonymous is neither anymore. Open meetings have become a circus with criminals I'd NEVER want my kids to associate with. Watchout for predators! There are closed meetings, but still there is no guarantee that one will be anonymous and/or only with "real" alkies . The Alien stuff was the weirdest.

Answer 3

When I was attending meetings (no longer do) a middle aged lady use to stand up and give her testimonial. She would talk about when she was drinking she would get so messed up that she would often wake up in the morning in a strange place minus her panties. She would go into a lot of detail and a lot of sexual ineundo. Needless to say, after the meeting, there would be several guys that would go up to her after the meeting.
She only gave this speech every couple of months. Come to find out, this was her way of finding a man. She would get herself a man after the meeting when she gave this speech. After a month or two he would figure out how weird she actually was and drop her. She would then come in and give the speech again (after a couple of months we would have a lot of new members who had been sentenced to AA meeting by the courts) and invariabally she would find herself another man for a month or so.

Answer 4

This is a tough one, I have heard a ton of funny crap but this one comes to mind. I was in a rehab in or around scranto pa. This guy, he is around 20 years old. Now, not that this is bad, but he is as gay is the day is long and no gaydar is needed in detecting this. He starts sharing in group.. He is very feminine and is weeping hysterically.. He goes on to say how he is so upset that he was all boozed up chasing his poor fathers horses all around their propery in his BMW.. Then in the same sentance he blurst out that he is also having trouble coming to terms with being both an Alcoholic and a Homosexual. He can't understand why he is so attracted to men.. I just lost it.. I started laughing and this got everyone going, even the counselor had to try to hold a straight face..

Answer 5

Although there were so many in both AA & NA, the one that sticks out in my mind was the time I walked into an NA meeting and the woman chairing was someone who robbed me of $600 years before, whose boyfriend at the time shot me.

The topic was "amends".

My friends wouldn't allow me to talk during the meeting, I'd be "messing with her serenity".

She ran off before offering even a "sorry".

Answer 6

I would say that isn't supposed to be answered because nothing said there is supposed to go out of there. To say would be a breech of confidence and then no one would be able to talk open and freely in the group. No I am not going to any AA meetings because I don't drink. I just know some people that have been to them.

Answer 7

"Just like the book says I am a robot. the question becomes am I a good robot today or a bad robot." Followed by an increasingly rising intensity "DO I WANT TO BE A GOOD ROBOT TODAY OR A BAD ROBOT!?!?!?!?"

Followed by silence as he stared at the floor and the rest of us fidgited in our seats.

This was spoken by a man who had started attending the goup after 30 yrs in Attica and mental health following a murder.

I did get a nod of approval from him when it came my time to share, and I said I personally wanted to be a good robot today.

We also had a lady mixing vodka and grape heckle a meeting.

Answer 8

A drunk man ran into the AA meeting hall with his car and smashed in half the building

Answer 9

when I was younger, I would go with my mom when she went to AA meetings. there was one speaker who said he used to freeze aftershave and then drink the alcohol that was left... blech!

Answer 10

IN THE GREETING HI MY NAME IS JOHN & I"M AN ALCOHOLIC MY NAME IS TED MY NAMEIS MARYAND SO ON MY BROTHER STOOD UP ANDSAID " HI MY NAME IS WAYNE & I"M A DIABETIC THE WHOLE ROOM BUZZED WHAT THE H*** DID HE SAY???