Sandy B.
| Speaker | Sandy B. |
| Event | Thursday Night Speakers Group |
| Location | Clearwater, FL |
| Year | 2012 |
| Era | Modern Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 43:43 |
| RS Number | RS-G148 |
Transcript
Thanks, Lauren. So, will you all help me welcome our main speaker tonight, Tampa Sandy Beach. Well, good evening, everybody. My name's Sandy Beach. I'm an alcoholic. And it's a pleasure to be here. You ought to get some excitement in this group. I come over to the Monday in this one and it's, it really is amazing, the energy level compared to the average group. It's just, it must be fun to come in here as a new person in the middle of all of this. I bet that you don't go back out. This is, looks contagious to me. I got sober on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 1964, up in Washington, D.C. I had the same, and I'm one of these guys that came here and got one white chip and decided not to get any more. It seemed stupid to me. And I had the same sponsor for a little over 42 years. And he was a great guy. You should be so lucky to be teamed up with somebody. Because, you know, once you've been sponsored by somebody who's got about a year more than you do, after about 30 years, you're just two friends that bounce things off each other. And it's just a blessed relationship. And I moved down to Tampa about 15 years ago, and I love it. I just think the AA in this area, the weather, the whole nine yards is just perfect. And I get to travel around AA a lot. And there are places where AA is not that exciting. So consider yourselves lucky. Clancy calls them pockets of enthusiasm around the country. There are still some places, and mostly up where I come from, in the New England area, where sobriety is a very serious thing. And you just don't drink. And if you do it long enough, you can have what I have. Nobody wants it, but they do it anyway. No, New England, that's where I grew up. Everybody's stoical and, you know, and all that. I remember going to Boston in the 60s, and I laughed at a meeting. And everybody turned around to see what was going on. I was just thinking, every time I try to find some new thing to talk about, when you're reading the initial reading, it mentioned a real alcoholic. And we hear that term in AA, but…
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