Attraction rather than Promotion

"Tradition 11--Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of radio, press and film."

Now, TELL me that's murky and hard to understand.
SURELY it's so complicated that someone with 35 years in the the program wouldn't be able to understand what that means. So complicated that a HOST of people just can't 'get' that it means we do NOT talk with press, break our own anonymity and brag about what a good thing the program is.

APPARENTLY IT IS!

Yep, I'm freaking pissed off.

FRONT page of the Sunday paper. And I mean the WHOLE front page. Pat the man on the back for celebrating 35 years of continuous sobriety, use his full name, name the AlAnons in his life, interview a whole pack of longer term sober folks and use THEIR full names...what WERE these folks thinking. TWO pages of praise and bragging up sobertime?! The paper did note the 'anonymity' clause--and noted the willingness of the folks to break their own.

Well, goodie for THEM. Yep, that 11th tradition says that--doesn't it?!

I was in a meeting with three of these folks on Friday--didn't hear squat about it...'cept mention of the upcoming anniversary for the one oldfart.

Now, I'm thinkin' there was a 'divine intervention' on THEIR behalfs this morning.
My back was completely out of sorts yesterday and I cancelled my Sunday with the pigeons and hence wouldn't be going to the meeting where I'd be apt to see a few of the longerterm sober folks mentioned in the TWO pages of the newspaper.
I'd kill 'em.....or at the very least, it would get darn messy, darn fast.

Oh BOY am I pissed!
Don Johnson did a GRAND job of promoting the program right before he went back out. What a great little advocate HE was.
Yep, I really AM mad.