Doug R. at the Okanogan Valley Winter Roundup – 2005
About This Speaker Tape
Sucking whiskey out of a bedspread is where the bottom lives. For Doug R., the "oops factor" defined a life spent as a professional misfit—the kind of man who mooned a bride's mother at a wedding and got uninvited from the next one. He entered the rooms in California acting too cool to sit down, auditing the meetings with a shot of Irish whiskey in his hand and a deep hostility toward any "soup and Jesus" religion.
He spent eight months as a fraud, collecting sobriety chips from across Los Angeles like trophies while smelling of a distillery. It took the visceral disgust of his own frugality—refusing to let liquor evaporate into the fabric of his mattress—to realize he was a hopeless loser. Now 17 years sober, he finds the only place he ever fit was among the wreckage.
He relies on a Higher Power and the Big Book, treating the program not as a Hallmark card, but as armor for the insane.
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