Bill Green
| Speaker | Bill Green |
| Event | Tutor Group Meeting |
| Location | New York City, NY |
| Year | 1960s |
| Era | Classic Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 36:24 |
| RS Number | RS-G060 |
Transcript
Well, I'm certainly glad we got the money. The water's free. I've been chasing a golf ball around all day long up in the Waikiki. You talk about a little bit of the time, you ought to go up there and watch those guys. It's remarkable what concentration can do. I talk a much better game than I play. Tonight I'd like to talk a little while, if I may, about a little bit of the time. I think it's very important and I think it's quite apropos of the growth of this group. I don't think any of us started out on our first drunk to get drunk all at once. I think perhaps we started off with that one small one just to be a good fella. Like Helen and the good Chris, I never drank because I liked the flavor, but I did love the effect it produced. I liked that. Because I was a big skinny kid and it made me a veritable tiger. And it seems that the one or two little drinks on a Saturday night soon blossomed forth into three or four. And a little bit at a time I discovered that I enjoyed this stuff. Yet, it did things for me that nothing else could do. I happened to be in the furniture business. A more miserable business was never invented. And especially not. But it seemed that in the furniture business, to people who sell things, you must have a little drink to celebrate an excellent sale. By the same token, you must have the same little drink to drown your sorrows when there are no sales. So a little bit at a time, instead of drinking both in celebration and in depression, I drank all the time. And the little three quarters of an ounce developed into a big fifth. Well, it wasn't a fifth when I was a young man. Of course, I'm fifty now. That's a long while ago. But when I was a young man, during Prohibition, we had flasks that were about that long. And I didn't carry a little bit at a time. I carried it all at once, you know, and it hits you right in the shoulder blades. You could always tell who had the flask by the way he walked around. I liked that. I was a dirty, stinking slob from the…
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