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· 1 year ago
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Actually a couple drinks of hot water probably saved my life and definitely a pretty huge trade deal for the company I used to work with. I was with a sales agency introducing a group of european importers to a big time chinese exporter of certain products, in Shanghai. The president of that chinese Company was an infamous alcoholic with a 50's attitude. He invited our group to an absurd parody of a luxurious "Piano Bar", complete with a chinese Frank Sinatra, and started the bottoms up game right from the start. A skinny 50-something 5' chinese with a pathetic perm, surrounded by 5 chinese Top Models he giggingly introduced as his "very personal" secretaries. And he was looking for someone to compete. The other guys paid our company so it was obvious, it was gonna be me. We started doing beer and bourbon for literal hours.
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· 1 year ago
I don't know how I managed to stay conscious and at one time the guy declared stand-off and called me "the only other real man" he ever met and offered, better: ordered me to pick one of his "secretaries" as a - I swear to god - bed warmer. I refused which started to make him mad, but one of the girls (who I had told earlier about my happy one-year marriage) blinked at me, so I *picked' her and he left with the rest of his entourage and told us to meet him next day around lunch time, so we could close the deal. The girl was super nice and asked me to tell her boss she did her work well, and then called me a cab,accompanied me back to the hotel and listened to me drunkenly praising my wife. My business friends had disappeared already hours before.
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· 1 year ago
She told me to expect a murderous hang-over because the Piano Bar would only pour the first few drinks from a genuine bottle and would then switch to some dubious chinese moon-shine. She recommended that as soon as I'd wake up to start drinking hot water in little sips (all chinese hotels I ever stayed in have like a gallon thermos bottle of hot water, for tea). Like for hours. I woke up with all symptoms of brain cancer and food poisoning combined and wished I was dead. I followed "Miss Claudia"'s advice and started sipping hot water and first thing I noticed was I really liked the taste, and then after about an hour, I was even able to eat breakfast. The meeting went brilliant, my partners were super impressed with the conditions, Old Boozer was happy and even more impressed with my manliihood when I arrived there in pretty good shape and the girl smiled at me and blushed. I guess she thought I was kinda cute.
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· 1 year ago
So that's my hot water story.Hope you enjoyed it and learned a little. That stuff is a miracle. Don't put it down.
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ewqua
· 1 year ago
And milk! Don't forget the milk.
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