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I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a local AA conference over the weekend. It was a much needed retreat from the horrors of every day life for us at this time. I am helping take care of my father who has Alzheimer's. My stepmother is in the hospital and will hopefully be able to to come home this week.

Alcoholism is not funny. We all know someone or are someone who is afflicted with this very serious disease. I am one who is recovering from alcoholism now sober for almost 29 years. I am what is commonly referred to as a high-bottomed alcoholic. I am one of the lucky ones. I, because of my ex-husband's struggle with alcoholism was alerted to how seriously dependent I was on alcohol. I am a very grateful recovering alcoholic.

What many people are unaware of is how talented, intelligent, sensitive and outrageously funny that many alcoholics are. In spite of the horror stories that most alcoholics have lived through, after recovery many times you can find the humor in the most horrific experiences. I have been guffawing to myself if not chuckling on the outside over just one story that I heard. It isn't even a whole experience but I have to write about it because it made me laugh so hard during a workshop with one of my AA buddies.

I will call him Joe just to protect his privacy. Joe was telling us that when he was drinking he was back living with his mother. He had two baskets of belongings left that he kept in a closet. When he got hard up he would pull out something to sell to buy alcohol or drugs. He said that he got in his basketful of goodies to try to sell a Tupperware plastic strainer at 2:00 in the morning just so he could get something to drink. I cracked up laughing at the image of that. He also shared that he was able to finally get an apartment after he sobered up even though his credit was still bad only because the woman that was renting it wanted cash immediately because she needed it to buy alcohol. God works in mysterious ways. We were all cracking up by the time he got done telling his stories.

At the end of the workshop he asked if anyone needed any rubber spatulas, that he still had 2 left. I asked him if they were made by Tupperware or Pampered Chef.

This may not have entertained you like it did me but I sure enjoyed the story and the experience. AA is not all misery and sadness. Some of the funniest most loving, caring people I have ever met I have met in AA and Alanon. If you ever are interested in knowing more about AA you can go to an open AA meeting or spend a day at a conference.