This is a guest post from my good friend, The Discovering Alcoholic, who writes a top rated recovery blog, www.discoveringalcoholic.com, covering alcoholism, substance abuse, treatment and recovery issues.
I wrote the latest installment of the TDA Alphabet Primer while flying back home from a business trip. The entire time I was typing away the pair of young women, one a soon-to-be bride, behind me were excitedly chatting, gossiping, and tittering over items related to the wedding like the rehearsal dinner and the fate and body weight of rarely seen friends. I finished up the post about the time we started our descent and put up my laptop. It was a late flight and therefore a fairly a quite flight, so with my laptop stowed I couldn’t help but key in on the conversation going on behind me.
As we taxied in after the landing the young lady about to be married called her fiancé who had promised to pick her up at the airport. This is how that conversation went.
Hey baby my plane’s coming into the gate…
Where are you? Why is it so loud? You’re where?
I thought you were going to pick me up? You can’t drive?
A shuttle? You want me to take a taxi?
At this point here friend who obviously felt sorry for her offered her a ride from the airport. No doubt the young lady was distressed because the guy she was just gushing over obviously had other priorities that involved drinking and most likely a music filled club.
It made me very sad to hear the topic I had just written about play out in real life so quickly. The man this young lady was planning on pledging her life and love to, apparently had other priorities. Yes our flight was a little late, but that just made it even more critical for this guy to be there for his bride to be… and yet he was gone.
