AN ATTITUDE TO TAKE TO MEETINGS

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AN ATTITUDE TO TAKE TO MEETINGS
One meeting we had was on the twenty-first floor of a downtown office
building. A mountain had fallen on the city's only power plant, and so
there was no electricity on for over four months! We had to walk up the
twenty-one flights of stairs. The meeting got very small. At one point all
of us who attended there regularly were out of town except for Bill. He was
an older man, quite overweight, and not in very good physical condition.
Getting up those twenty-one flight of stairs was quite an effort for him.
But I found out that while we were all gone, he had walked up those
twenty-one flights three times a week and sat in that room alone. I asked
him why he did that, since he knew that we were all out of town. He said,
"Somebody might have come up those stairs looking for an AA meeting, and I
just had to be there in case that happened."

A Woman Like You: page 52, paragraph 1, lines 1-14