The twelve steppers.

As a few more people talked about how long they were sober, and where they stood in the Alcoholics Anonymous score chart it occurred to Kadizzle just how many ex drinkers he knew.  It seems like well over half the people we know are members of the Blue Dolphin club.  Order a Blue Dolphin at the bar and you get a glass of ice water with a lime.  Kadizzle has heard so much about AA meetings he wants to go to one. One of our best friends attends three every Monday.  It must be a club like no other.  Who knows what they do, but one thing is for sure it seems to work.  Kadizzled has garnered from being with the legions that a lot of the success is based on tenets or rules to live by.  None judgmental is one.  Some of the others keep popping up. What if you went to a meeting and said you just wanted to be social, but did not have a drinking problem?  Kadizzle drinks his share, and at times he has been blasted, but is he ready for a complete overhaul?  Who knows?  If you get up in the morning and crave a Bloody Mary every day, then maybe you need a tune up.  If you are drinking before noon, you really need a tune up.  If  you are drinking by three you need to be careful.  Kadizzle likes a glass of wine, well the truth is that if Kadizzle starts on wine, he quits at half a bottle if all goes well.  Drinking alone is supposed to be a sign you have a problem.  Well count Kadizzle out on that one.  What fun is drinking if you cannot say stupid stuff to someone?  Being an alcoholic is pricey.  Once Kadizzle tried to figure out how much a friend was spending on hooch. Two bottles of good gin a week adds up to about six thousand a year.  Throw in a DUI and now you quickly are approaching twenty thousand.  Of course there are a lot of hidden cost to drinking.

Once Kadizzle helped rope a drunk and take him to the bin.  It must have been over thirty years ago.  The wife of a friend said her husband needed an " intervention".   Somehow Kadizzle got on the team.  With a surprise attack the group confronted the drunk and told him he needed to go to the local facility.  He wined and convinced everyone to leave and said he was not going.  Kadizzle told him that he was going. Kadizzle was not going to fail in his mission.  Kadizzle gently grabbed the guy and led him to the car.  The cleanup crew drove him too Mandan.   He took the cure, it worked.  Incidentally this was the guy who got Kadizzle started sailing.  As is not uncommon this guy and his wife immediately got divorced when he became sober. She could deal with a drunk lump on the couch, but a sober nuisance was too much too deal with.  His wife packed up everything he owned while he was work and put it in a dump truck.  She had the dump truck back into a storage shed in west Hazen and dumped everything. There it sat for over thirty years.  Then the reformed drunk called Kadizzle from Florida.  Kadizzle helped clean out the mess the guy had paid 40k to store for thirty years.  Kadizzle was rewarded with a bunch of tools, an incredible assortment of nails and screws, and even a post hole digger.  So Joe is sober and Kadizzle has a post hole digger anyone is free to borrow.