“Expert in everything” is what my grandad used to call the “pub bore” which is probably why I associate Jack with that insistent dickhead who wants to talk at you about their poorly formed world view usually found in the pub, but also inhabits waiting rooms, delayed trains, driving a taxi or anywhere you can be trapped in conversation for 5 mins.
I think the instant expert shit is actually part of narcissist grandiosity in Jack’s case.
I also think her comment “I’m not the face of AA” is a giveaway that she does in fact want to be the face of AA
This is spot on. In fact, I remember seeing someone comment a while back (not sure if it was here or Mumsnet) about how Jack was regarded as the pub bore at the Groucho, getting increasingly loud and drunk and holding court, boring everyone senseless. I can well imagine it.
I think sanctimonious, pontificating Jack is the absolute worst of her many ghastly iterations. How DARE she appoint herself as the expert on sobriety?? She herself has not only failed multiple times to keep off the booze (no shame in that - but it certainly doesn’t mean she can lecture others), but she also lied and lied and lied about it, claiming umpteen times that she was “x days sober” when she was drinking all the time. Not to mention what was going on with the other substances. All those times when we thought she was drunk or “on” something, the dino naps, etc. And she was claiming she was sober all the time.
She’s a liar and a hypocrite.