Missed opportunities

With Mom down here in Seneca this week, I've been doing AA online. I did one today that was a chat room. This meeting is usually pretty good, but as things online do, today's meeting got kind of stupid. A new guy was leading the meeting and was being kind of an ass. Another guy clearly hated him and kept making nasty comments the whole time. This was basically just a wasted meeting- but at the end a new person logged on and said they were a college student and wished they could stop drinking but couldn't. People tried to talk to them, but they were obviously weirded out by the stupid behavior in a chat room. They said they could talk and logged out. Who knows when this person will reach out again.... it could be years. Hopefully they'll reach out again, but it was awful to lose an opportunity to help someone who really needed it.