# Sobriety, revisited

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sobriety-revisited/275386>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 18, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sobriety-revisited/275386 "2004-11-18T00:38:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sobriety-revisited/275386/21 "2004-11-20T15:45:21Z")

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> [@handmelder](#):
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> I had too many Years and not enough Days

I **MUST** remember that saying! Thanks, **handmelder**.

and **Mariemarie**? Glad to be of assistance. 😉

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**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sobriety-revisited/275386/22 "2004-11-20T17:09:12Z")

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Been sober since I got up this morning, bout 15 hours now. Me and my girlfriends are planning to go to a meeting tonight, I’m plaqnning to be sober when I got to bed tonight. I’m looking at the tickets I got 17 years ago and the letters from the lawyers about the lawsuits, me and my girlfriend found them yesterday. I had the main ticket, I raded my license for, laminated about two years ago. (17 years, I miss beer)

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sobriety-revisited/275386/23 "2004-11-20T18:39:57Z")

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Another one chiming in here, sober for 28 years now, married to a guy sober 21 years. Congrats to all you guys just starting out – there’s always ups and downs in life, but they’re a whole lot easier to deal with sober than drunk! ODAAT has worked for me all this time, and I see no reason to change what I’m doing. In fact, I was reminiscing this morning with some friends from around the country about our experiences at the every-five-years AA International Convention in San Diego in 1995. (2005 it’s in Toronto, and if you want to see something amazing? Try 50,000+ sober people in one giant meeting!)

The hardest thing about AA for me was walking in the door the first time.

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