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Stories/Letters"That's Mr. Magoo!"
In prison yesterday, a man with a deceptively
low-voltage personality and very heavy street rep was
yawning in group. He said all week he'd been staying up
late watching Christmas
movies on his little TV in his cell. Other guys laughed
when he said Christmas movies always gave him a warm
feeling inside, and that his favorite recent discovery
was a cartoon Scrooge with a big bald head and real bad
eyesight! "That's Mr. Magoo!" I said. (A personal
favorite)! "Nope, his name wasn't Magoo" he replied with
a smile beneath his trademark half-closed lids. "It was
Scrooge"! Anyway he'd got himself caught up in the
story, and the Ghost of Christmas Future's predictions
for poor Tiny Tim ended up causing an audible case of
the sniffles. The resulting handkerchief honking woke
his celly. "I told him it was my allergies", said my
friend. "Can't let folks know that the bald headed
Scrooge got to you"!
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