Ahhh.... but that wasn't Christmas drinks .... bugga, title is boozey stories eh

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Ahhh.... but that wasn't Christmas drinks .... bugga, title is boozey stories eh
jon_d wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:43 pm Ok, since I’ve retired and left the company…… true story.
In the nineties, I was traveling the overseas regularly for work. Generally, I’d fly into the US on a Sunday and home on Friday. Week in Melbourne and then out to somewhere in Asia. Japan, Korea, Sing, Malaysia, Beijing and the like.
I’d be meeting with other region reps and lab staff in the US where we’d make plans and then meet with the countries to deploy and do business reviews.Part of this included attending monthly Asia wide country business reviews with my bosses boss (Simon) out of Taiwan.
So, this particular meeting in Taiwan went well and on Friday, Simon hosted my boss and I for a game of golf. All good and on Saturday, we flew into Korea for a review on Monday. Well, on Sunday, Do Hee and Jung Dai then hosted Phil (my boss) and I for golf and dinner.
Dinner includes special desert. Dinner went well.
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Special desert is a private karaoke bar (out the back) with a bloke strumming a guitar, a couple of 'hosts' and a bottle of Korean Scotch and us four.
Phil declared he didn’t drink. So the others decided to toast me. I didn’t twig…. Must have been the scotch at dinner too…. But it was one shot for Do Hee and me, then, one shot for Jung Dai and me. A bit like the Kodak deal. 2 prints for one.
All good for a while. After all, I was single and spent most nights down the local so I had a pretty good tolerance. Saturday nights ended up drinking Sambucas.
But, it did catch up. In a big way. It was time to vomit. You know when. That feeling that this is going to be bad. Well I was having that feeling.
Our private room had its own private dunny. Off I go. All casual like. Not to lose any face.
Well, there I am. Wondering what to do and with Belly full of Korean Scotch and KimChi. (chilli fermented cabbage). Almost like on queue, the guitar starts up with a drum backing.
Boom Boom Boom. A beat to throw up too. Just like in the movie; The Shawshank Redemption, where he’s timing the rock with the thunder. Here I am, counting in the beat and hurling. Emptied out and now one knew. Face saved.
So, back I trot. And out comes the Scotch. I didn’t last long, and back into the dunny. Boom boom and baarrrph. Ooops, missed the beat. Actually, I probably missed the next few beats.
Well, Do Hee in a caring voice, sort of asks if I’m ok and I stagger out. They pack me up and send me home. Apparently, I’d earnt my stripes. One of my most enjoyable trips. Not sure what happened to the hosts, but being Korea, one can only imagine.
Lost my licence and was not even driving ...T1 Terry wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:31 am I'd lost my licence for speed dangerous, on my motorbike, that was converted to Manner Dangerous at the doors of the court room, the difference being speed dangerous was a traffic offence, Manner Dangerous was a criminal offence.
Anyway, a group of us had been on a 3 day Upper Hunter Wine festival "tasting" - camping trip and I'd made the most of the last day before we left. A friend drove our Toyota Tarago diesel (absolute power house, not) back to their place in the Blue Mtns and the wife was too scared to drive home with all the traffic in the dark ..... so still half shoot Terry volunteered to drive. Sure enough, Booze Bus at Springwood and I get pulled over for a "random licence check" Youngest daughter is in the bassinet between the seats (still legal back then) so I made a fuss looking for my wallet, nudged the bassinet a few times to wake the daughter up so the wife is trying to calm her and I tell the wife to check the glove box and not worry about the baby ...... the young female officer gets all flustered and say not to worry about it, they aren't trying to upset families but rather get unlicensed and drink drivers off the road, then sends us on our way .... I think I was sober within 100 yds down the road![]()
T1 Terry