On a Carnival cruise I took two years ago, I saw in the daily schedule a meeting for the Friends Of Bill W. First I thought, gee this Bill W must a be a popular guy. Then I thought about it, and decided it was probably a family reunion, and they had enough people to merit lisiting it in the daily activities.
Then on my cruise last month, I again saw a meeting for the Friends Of Bill W. What are the odds? Maybe it was some sort of club. I also saw a meeting for the Friends Of Dorothy. I thought maybe these were groups or people that met through a website like Cruise Critic or some other place. That they had been chatting online for months in anticipation of their upcoming cruise. Wow! Cool! Maybe I could organize a Friends Of RJ meeting! I thought about dropping in one of the meetings just to see what they were.
Fortunatly I didn’t just drop in. Out of curiousity, I did a google search on the Friends Of Bill W, and found this is a code for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting (AA). Man, would I have been embarrassed! I am surely not an alcoholic. I drank a single strawberry daiquiri during entire 8 day cruise. I prefer Diet Pepsi thanks.
Then I saw what the Friends Of Dorothy was. Whoa! That would have made the Friends Of Bill W meeting look like a great place to be as I would have been completely out of place here!
No RJ, you wouldn’t have been out of place at a Friends of Dorothy meeting.
Gay men and Lesbians are perhaps the most persecuted group on the planet, and as a result are very tolerant of others and their individual differences.
You probably would have felt more comfortable at the Friends of Dorothy Meeting than at the Friends of Bill W. meeting.
Comment by dns — July 27, 2006 @ 2:20 am
RJ this is so funny to see as my brother was cruising in April and thought the same thing though he WENT to the meeting, not only that he WENT with a GIANT margarita in hand, imagine his horror when he found out what the group truly was about!!!!
Comment by Lindsay — August 14, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
Lindsey, I have read your comment multiple times, and it cracks me up every time! It is so funny because I can see that happening often! I am sure the Friends Of Bill and the Friends Of Dorothy are used to people wandering into their meetings without a clue! LOL!
Comment by RJ — August 16, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
You would think that once you looked this up and saw this was a Alcoholics ANONYMOUS meeting, key word being ANONYMOUS, you would have kept this post to yourself. Obviously if they wanted the world to know it was an AA meeting, then they would not list it as Friends of Bill W.
Have some respect!
Comment by Friend of Bill W — August 21, 2007 @ 3:59 pm