The coy non-answer on where the enforcement is

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texture · ~YDPAH (Gately's residency), and standing

When: during Gately's residency (a standing feature of his puzzlement), narrated present-tense 8 Nov YDAU
What: Gately puzzled over why AA meetings, with no Sergeant at Arms, stayed so orderly — no interrupting, no beefs over the tray's last Oreo. "Pat Montesian and Eugenio Martinez and Ferocious Francis the Crocodile wouldn't answer Gately's questions about where's the enforcement." "They just all smiled coy smiles and said to Keep Coming" — an apothegm Gately found as trite as any slogan, the point being that there is no external enforcement: obey your own sick will and you "end up kicking yourself out."