Sober coach

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:20 PM -0500 1/12/11, Neal Whitman wrote:
>I read today about Charlie Sheen's "sober coach". I'm assuming they
>mean "sobriety coach" ... ?
>
>Actually, today was my first encounter with "sober coach," and I've
>never encountered "sobriety coach"; it just makes more sense.
>
>Neal
>
I suppose so; the only alternative I can think of is that he has a
sober coach on one shoulder and a drunk/stoned coach on the other.
Maybe his time in prehab was designed to train himself to attend the
former and ignore the latter.

LH

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