This is a talk recorded at the 12th Kentucky State A.A. Conference in Lexington, Kentucky in 1963. The speaker, Bill, is Howard Benhoff and undoubtedly you have a number of talks by Howard. I don't remember exactly how long he'd been in A.A., but I believe he had become a trustee of A.A. just prior to his death. It is a fairly short talk, running about 40-some minutes, just about 40 minutes, and I'll put it in here, even though you may have a number of Howard's talks. To you poor normal individuals, good evening. And to you brothers and sisters under the gin, isn't it wonderful to be sober? I submit that question to myself quite often in order that I remember the contrast between the end result of the Benhoff system of thinking and living and this system of thinking and living called A.A. The Benhoff, by the way, is my last name, and the way to remember that is to remember that this is the guy that's been off all his life. And as far as West Richfield, my friends, it is in Summit County, about 20 miles south of Cleveland. I lived there for about 12 years and I moved back to Cleveland. So if you're up around that way, you can find me a lot easier looking at a phone book in Cleveland. Folks, when we just begin to think about whether or not we have a problem, I believe that is the time when happiness, good times are beginning to be removed from whatever drinking experiences we might have. I'm inclined to think that most people drank the way I did. In other words, we started out and we didn't go to jail and we didn't smash up cars. We had fun. I had more fun than a barrel of monkeys with a mile of clotheslines, please. And you know, my mother didn't wait up for me at night and I paid my bills and I was dependable. I was on the job on time and drinking was not a problem. I loved it. I loved the smell of it. I loved the effects. I even liked beer when it came down a second time through your nose. Remember how that used to be? And it was wonderful that as time went on, and with me it was pretty rapid, because I started kind…