28 Days Page #2
-''l....''
l don't know how to explain.
All right. Okay, well,
that's a good start.
Another time. lt's all right.
So let's finish up today
with a prayer, all right?
Let's all hold hands.
God, grant me the serenity...
...to accept the things
l cannot change...
...the courage to change
the things l can...
...and the wisdom to know
the difference.
lt works if you work it.
lt's worth it!
All right!
Take on the day. Go ahead.
B-minus.
Hey, Gwen C.!
Your bed was not made up,
your clothes were all over.
l'm giving you an F for daily
inspection and fining you a dollar.
So pay up.
Tell you what.
Here's five dollars.
l don't plan on cleaning all week.
B*tch.
How you doing?
Good.
l don't know how much money
l have in my account...
...but it's yours
if l could bum a cigarette.
Sure.
They're Reds.
Thank you.
Been here long?
Yeah.
What's the deal here if somebody
was looking for something...
...with a little more kick
than nicotine?
Do people actually get stuff here,
or is it...?
lt happens.
How does it work?
l mean, how can you get stuff?
Can you get stuff,
or is it, like...?
lf your counselor catches you using,
you can get kicked out.
l don't plan on discussing it
with him.
Too late.
Generally, people come to rehab
not to get loaded.
Well, l try not to run with the pack.
You're a real individual.
You're the only person
who does drugs and alcohol.
l meant what l said.
You get caught using,
Fair enough. We done?
And believe me,
l'll know if you're using.
You always this charming?
deflect things when you're uneasy?
Do you always use insight
to disarm your new recruits?
-What's that?
-lt's literature about your disease.
AA Big Book, some worksheets.
A journal l want you
l suppose l have to do this.
with your time?
Hey, listen.
This isn't the last lousy day
you'll have here.
So remember, God never dumps
more on us than we can handle.
ls that available stitched
on a pillow?
Tonight's Iecture: ''Are You A BIackout
Drunk, Or Don't You Remember?.''
You going down?
happened to watch DateIine...
...the night they're doing
some expos...
...on Park Avenue drug users...
doing blow in the bathroom.
But l don't have a problem.
l don't have health problems.
l play Ultimate Frisbee
two times a week.
And l'm, you know, a patron of the
arts, and diseases and cures and stuff.
That's what l spend my money on.
So l like to have a little bit of fun.
''AduIt ChiIdren Of AIcohoIics''
is moved to 9 p.m. in room 8.
CoDA starts at 8 p.m. in B.
CAs and NAs meet tomorrow...
...and overeaters, sexuaI addicts....
Who the hell do you have to know
Oh, God.
Oh, my God, l love you so much.
-Where are all the celebrities?
-There are none.
What? Come on.
a good coked-out star story.
Elizabeth Taylor, weeping in group
about how she never felt beautiful.
Never. Not one single day.
Now, that's the story they want.
-l'll get you out of here.
-l'm not supposed to leave.
You're not supposed to have
Mummy's Little Helper, either.
Hold on, hold on.
Okay, go.
Be very, very quiet. l'm hiding.
Be very, very quiet.
Drunk men stagger, drunk men faII
Drunk men swear and that's not aII
Quite often they wiII urinate outdoors
Like widowed women, drunk men weep
Drunk men sIeep
Like a dog, a drunk wiII
CrawI around on aII fours
If you're broke bum or rich rake
His dinner be it bread or cake
His beverage be the worst of whiskey
Finest wine
Puke, it stinks, and so it seems
That drunkards go to great extremes
There is yet to be
Hi, everybody.
So what's the deal? l'm out?
lt'll take me a day to
arrange your transfer.
l know where l want to go.
This place in the city--
l'm not referring you
to a treatment facility.
l get to go home?
Nope.
Where am l going, then?
Your sentence was
for 28 days of rehab or jail time.
You don't honestly think
l'm going to jail, do you?
For driving drunk, hitting a lawn jockey
that could've been a 4-year-old child?
But it wasn't.
lt was a 4-year-old lawn jockey.
That's fine if this is all a big joke,
but in here we have rules.
Pack your bags by morning.
No, l'm not.
Because l don't belong in jail.
l don't even belong in here.
You know, yeah, l know l drink a lot.
l'm a writer,
and that's what l do, we drink.
Cornell Shaw for Clancy, please.
l'm not like those people.
l can control myself.
No, l'll hold.
lf l wanted to, l could.
lf that's what l wanted. l could.
l can.
l can!
You know what?
Forget that, Mr. Rogers,
you 1 2-stepping geek.
What do you know about me?
Nothing. You don't know a goddamn
thing about me, you know that?
AIways tomorrow
Lean on me
-When you're not strong
-Excuse me.
-I'II be your friend
-Excuse me.
-I'II heIp you carry--
-Excuse me!
We're better together! No drugs!
Grant me the serenity to...
-...accept the things l cannot change--
-Excuse me!
Are you coming?
No.
Hi, my name is CorneII.
Hi, my name is CorneII.
l am a drug addict, alcoholic,
compulsive gambler/liar.
Hi, Cornell.
For those of you
who are new tonight...
...l know that this is not your year.
lf that'll make you happy,
l will stop drinking.
And then l would tell myself:
''Tonight l will not get wasted.''
And then something would happen.
And l'd get that feeling.
And you aII know
what that feeIing is.
When your skin is screaming...
...and your hands are shaking...
...and your stomach feeIs Iike
it wants to jump...
...through your throat.
And you know that
if anyone had a cIue...
...how wrong it feIt to be sober...
...they wouIdn't dream
of asking you to stay that way.
They wouId say, ''Oh, jeez,
I didn't know. Here.
It's okay for you.
You do that mound of cocaine.
Have a drink. Have 20 drinks.
Whatever you need to do to feeI...
...Iike a normaI human being...
...you do it.''
And, boy, I did it.
I drank, and I snorted...
...and I drank and snorted
and drank and snorted.
And I did this day after day
I didn't care about the consequences.
Because I knew that they couIdn't be
haIf as bad as not using.
Oh, God!
And then one night
something happened.
You know you're screwed.
I woke up.
I woke up on a sidewaIk.
l had no idea where l was. l couldn't
have told you the city l was in.
My head was pounding...
...and l looked down
and my shirt is covered in blood.
And as I'm Iying there,
wondering what happens next...
...I heard a voice.
And it said:
''Man, this is not a way to live.
This is a way to die.''
Can l help you?
Eddie Boone, checking in.
You can't bring a girl
into treatment with you, Eddie.
l wasn't gonna keep her.
You were really lucky
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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