12 Steps to a Slip 1. Start missing meetings for any reason - real or imaginary. 2. Become critical of the methods used by other members who may not agree with you in everything. 3. Nurse the idea that someday, somehow, you can drink socially again and become a "controlled" drinker. 4. Let other members do the 12th Step work in your group. You are too busy, and you've been told this is a "selfish" program anyhow. 5. Become conscious of your AA seniority and view every new member with a skeptical and jaundiced eye. 6. Become so pleased with your own views of the program that you consider yourself to be the "elder statesman". 7. Start a small clique within your own group, composed only of a few members who see eye-to-eye with you. 8. Tell the new member in confidence that you yourself do not take certain of the twelve steps seriously. 9. Let your mind dwell more and more on how much you are helping others, rather than on how much the AA program is helping you. 10. If an unfortunate member has a slip, drop him at a once, announce his slip whenever possible and analyze his non- readiness of the program. 11. Cultivate the habit of borrowing money or mooching favors from other members and the stay away from the meetings to avoid embarrassment. 12. Look upon the 24-hour plan as a vital thing for new members but not for yourself. You have outgrown the need for that long ago. author unknown