Hey, I’m Harry, I’m an alcoholic. Hi, Harry. I wanna thank Scott for asking me here to talk, and, uh, Sarah done a nice job. I, I, I was laughing at Sarah when she was talking about seeing things. And, uh, I gotta tell you, uh, Donna, before I come up here, said, “Why are you nervous? You’ve probably done this talk 100 times.” I said, “I know.” A-and I lived it, so I can’t hardly forget any of it, except the blackout spells. But I always get nervous the first five minutes, and, and, and you guys look like you’re gonna do fine. You look relaxed and all, and, and I’d like to tell you a little story that, that might help relax me and get me into this thing. But, uh, there was the story of the 10-minute speaker that showed up and, and the leader said, “Would you be our 10-minute speaker?” And he said, uh, “Yeah.” And then quickly he ran to his sponsor before the meeting started, and he said, “The leader asked me to be the 10-minute speaker.” And the sponsor said, “Wonderful.

That’s good.” He said, “No, that ain’t good, man. I get up there before that podium, I can’t even remember my name.” He said, “You’re gonna do fine. Don’t worry about it.” He said, “But I never done this before.” He said, “You’re gonna do fine.” He said, “I’ll tell you what, here, here’s a card. We’ll write your name, real big letters, and we’ll put it here on the inside of your coat pocket. And when you get up there, if you have a mental block, you can’t remember it, you just open the jacket, you look inside, you see your name, and you tell them your name. You’ll be all right.” “Good idea, spons.” So he writes his name down, he puts his card inside here. Finally, it’s time to get up. He gets up to the podium, and he says, “Hi, my name’s…” And he looks at his sponsor, and the sponsor says, “Pocket, pocket.” He says, “My name’s J.C. Penney, and I’m an alcoholic.” I know how he feels. I, I sometimes, uh, uh, have that happen to me.

I, I’m always delighted when somebody calls me up and says, “Will you talk?” And, and, uh, then when it comes time, I say, “When am I gonna learn to say no?” But I can’t. This is a, a prideful thing, I guess you could say, that I do, uh, coming to talk at meetings. I, uh, always enjoy it. Always glad when it’s over. Always. And, uh, I, I’m a wino. Uh, uh, my experience with other drugs had been when I was in the military. I remember, uh, being broke on a weekend. Everybody with money was gone, and, uh, I was hanging around the barracks, and this guy came in with a, with a canary in a cage. And God, it was the prettiest thing I ever saw, and the bird was just a-singing. And somebody came in the barracks and, and, and the guy said, “Man, listen to that canary. Can’t he sing?” He said, “If you was eating what that canary was eating, you’d sing too.” I said, “What?” He said, “He’s been eating canary, uh, uh, canary bird seed here.