28 Days Page #4

A perfectIy straight Iine

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.

And l warned you about them.

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.

Or nothing 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

after night after night.

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.

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