I got your voicemail. You are the first and only person who ever made amends to me. At last! Your particular amends are so funny that the next time I want to rant about people not making amends, I can instead tell them about you. Yay! I don't know who you are. I don't recognize your voice. If you did offend me, I'm over it, probably for 15 years. It's too bad you didn't say or leave your number because I would have called and if I owed you an apology for something I would have apologized for it or if not I would have explained and either of those would might have helped you with your recovery. I would have been able to show you how amends are really supposed to be made, by actually making them, not by calling and bitching someone out. I would have explained how obviously passive aggressive your message was and, if you wanted, given you hints on better ways to do it, kinda like this sentence. I would have shown you how anonymous amends in situations like this are not really amends. I would let you know that you revealed your vulunerability to me by not leaving your name or number so in the future you would learn to better mask your fear of other people's reactions. I'm sure it was very painful for you make that call. Perhaps when you call back in another 15 years to make amends for the passive aggressive not amends at all message you just left, you will leave your number and I will tell you that I didn't even get offended by your message. I promise not to tell you how I laughed when I heard it. By the way, as you said, I was a hard person to be friends with and as you suggested, I did look at it, and now I'm a great person to be friends with, and have been for oh at least 15-20 years. Because of the not amends at all but rather a sarcastic hit and run message, it's clear that you have 20 seconds of sobriety so I can safely assume that all those many years when I was learning and being a good friend, you were still drinking and not making any changes in yourself so you can't imagine that I would. But thank you, finally, after all these years of me bitching about never receiving amends, now I finally have them, this is truly a gift, especially since they provide so much entertainment value.

The funny part folks is that I'm the diva of amends, always convinced everything is my fault and always apologizing (less these days though. boy were they right when they said that once you turn 40 you just don't care about the old bullshit you used to.) I'm probably on the short list of people that would have been receptive 15 years later and no doubt apologized for my part. I wouldn't have been snotty and given her a lesson in how to make amends, I just wrote that here because it felt good. And, yeah, I was laughing as I listened to it, but the next day I remembered how much I hated those fucking aa people that said 'you might want to look at that', you know, the ones who don't even know you, and I got ticked off. She got me with that one. Although obvious, she does have some good p/a skills if she was able to nail me.