motorcycle trip

[badgolferman]

I went on a five day motorcycle trip with a bunch of other AA friends.
We left last Wednesday and got back on Sunday. Originally we were
supposed to go south toward Asheville, NC and explore the motorcycle
rides in the North Carolina mountains, but the flooding devastation
down there forced us to go north instead. We went into the mountains
of West Virginia, Ohio Valley, and Shanksville, PA to see the Flight 93
memorial.

The first day was raining as we made our way to Elkins which made the
West Virginia mountain twisty roads even more hazardous, but that
doubled the fun! The second day we stayed in Bridgeport West Virginia
and explored more mountain roads. The third day we went to Shanksville
for the memorial, dit the Triple Nickel run (Rte 555) and then stayed
in Athens, Ohio. The fourth day we took the back roads and mountain
passes to Lexington, VA. The fifth day we rode the entire width of
Virginia across the rural roads from Lexington to Hampton Roads area.

I received a huge compliment from our ride leader when he told me I've
come a long way on the bike.

The only blemish of the entire trip was seeing #1 Alabama lose to lowly
Vanderbilt Saturday. But at least on Sunday I got to see the
Washington ex-Redskins put a whooping on the Cleveland Browns so that
kind of made up for it.

[Charlie M. 1958]

Post by badgolferman
The only blemish of the entire trip was seeing #1 Alabama lose to lowly
Vanderbilt Saturday.

I think you misspelled "blessing".

[badgolferman]

Post by badgolferman
I went on a five day motorcycle trip with a bunch of other AA friends.

I forgot to mention something, which I think LaRocca will appreciate.

During this trip we went to a couple of meetings in the evening. One
of the meetings was in Bridgeport, WV. There were 30 people in
attendance and every single person got to speak within the hour,
including the preliminary readings. This would NEVER have happened
here in our area! We'd be lucky to get 10 people to share. There are
too many readings and too many long-winded people, new and old timers.

[Bob]

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Post by badgolferman
I went on a five day motorcycle trip with a bunch of other AA friends.

I forgot to mention something, which I think LaRocca will appreciate.
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This would NEVER have happened
here in our area! We'd be lucky to get 10 people to share. There are
too many readings and too many long-winded people, new and old timers.

Amusing presumption, that whatever is read or said is going to bore everyone
shitless anyway, but what is important is how long they take to say it;-)

Given sharing necessities something of value and at least two people, what
percentage of AA meetings endure no sharing whatsoever?

[badgolferman]

Post by Bob

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Post by badgolferman
I went on a five day motorcycle trip with a bunch of other AA friends.

I forgot to mention something, which I think LaRocca will appreciate.
Snip
This would NEVER have happened
here in our area! We'd be lucky to get 10 people to share. There are
too many readings and too many long-winded people, new and old timers.

Amusing presumption, that whatever is read or said is going to bore everyone
shitless anyway, but what is important is how long they take to say it;-)
Given sharing necessities something of value and at least two people, what
percentage of AA meetings endure no sharing whatsoever?

How many real AA meetings have you been to in the last one year?

[Bob]

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Post by Bob

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Post by badgolferman
I went on a five day motorcycle trip with a bunch of other AA friends.

I forgot to mention something, which I think LaRocca will appreciate.
Snip
This would NEVER have happened
here in our area! We'd be lucky to get 10 people to share. There are
too many readings and too many long-winded people, new and old timers.

Amusing presumption, that whatever is read or said is going to bore everyone
shitless anyway, but what is important is how long they take to say it;-)
Given sharing necessities something of value and at least two people, what
percentage of AA meetings endure no sharing whatsoever?

How many real AA meetings have you been to in the last one year?

"the last one year"?
I grew out of going to "real AA meetings" and inflicting "sharing" on a
captive audience almost three decades ago. :-(

[badgolferman]

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Post by badgolferman
How many real AA meetings have you been to in the last one year?

"the last one year"?
I grew out of going to "real AA meetings" and inflicting "sharing" on a
captive audience almost three decades ago. :-(

Okay, so you haven’t been to meetings in thirty years, have no idea what
goes on in the fellowship, yet feel qualified to criticize meetings and
people who do attend them.

I feel completely justified in ignoring anything AA related you mention
from this point on.

[Bob]

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Post by badgolferman
How many real AA meetings have you been to in the last one year?

"the last one year"?
I grew out of going to "real AA meetings" and inflicting "sharing" on a
captive audience almost three decades ago. :-(

Okay, so you haven’t been to meetings in thirty years, have no idea what
goes on in the fellowship,

So all the verbosity here about what goes on in the fellowship has been
utter bullshit?

yet feel qualified to criticize meetings and

Post by badgolferman
people who do attend them.

I'm as qualified as anyone else here to criticise, but do prefer not to copy
your example, by asking questions here instead.

Post by badgolferman
I feel completely justified in ignoring anything AA related you mention
from this point on.

Thanks for the chuckle.;-)

Are you sure you're not projecting your own inflated self importance?

It is amusing that you imagine a need to feel justified! :-)