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Standing Up to a Bully Cost Me $600
I’ll never confront anyone at an AA meeting again.
It was 1998, and I was 7 years sober and still attending AA meetings. There was this lanky loser named Logan who used to come to meetings with his guitar. He thought he was Eric Clapton the way he sat playing before and after the meetings, but he sounded more like a toddler plucking at those strings. Everyone ignored him. You do get weirdos who try to get sober, and he was one of them.
A young, meek, and quite plump girl named Lisa came into the rooms of AA to get sober. I don’t know if loser Logan got rebuffed by her or he just saw her as prey, but he started verbally attacking her.
Lisa spoke about leaving an abusive relationship one night, and loser Logan came over to her afterward and said she probably deserved the abuse, laughing as he said it.
Another time he knocked her purse off the table deliberately. Another time he made oinking sounds around her.
I had enough of watching this asshole bully this young girl. One night before the meeting, I went over to Logan, who was sitting on a railing smoking a cigarette. I had to look up at him, but I told him I didn’t like the way he was treating Lisa. Enraged, he told me to fuck off and got off the railing. I thought he was going to assault me. I…
