We are our stories, so the saying goes. And a classic at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Greenwich, Connecticut has been the speaker tale about putting the finishing touches on a drunk in the Metro North bar car. That was usually after catching the last commuter train back post hours drinking at the Oyster Bar. The next day, they would get up at 5 A.M, take the train into Manhattan's Grand Central, then a subway to Wall Street to their wonderful jobs, and then repeat the Oyster Bar, along with the Metro North bar car.
That could all end. The bar car could be eliminated by Metro North as a measure in cost-efficiency. In NEW YORK Magazine, Josh Duboff reports the horror has already happened in commuter trains to Long Island and Westchester.
On on the Connecticut line is it still possible to audition for AA.
In my novel THE FAT GUY FROM GREENWICH, I position joining AA as a WASPY rite of passage.
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