Essay Drinker

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Drinker

Text/Chang'an 18th Son

A drinker is a person who likes to drink. Wine can be regarded as one of the greatest inventions in human history. Wine is indeed a good thing. Drinking when you are happy can make you happy, and drinking when you are worried can make you forget your worries. Since ancient times, drinkers have attracted attention. Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty loved drinking and wrote poems such as "Drinking Drinking" and "Recounting Wine"; the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty "Hundred Poems on Fighting about Wine" seems to be inseparable from wine every day. It is also said that "all the sages in ancient times were lonely, and only the drinkers left their names." The Song Dynasty poet Liu Kezhuang wrote a poem "Drinker": "Drunk too much, it harms the heart, and drunken enough to lie down and vomit. There is a great gentleman in the world who drank five buckets of stone." What a great drinker! The heroes in "Water Margin" are all "big bowls of wine and big chunks of meat", how happy and generous they are! As the saying goes, no party is complete without wine. Because there are banquets everywhere every day, and the price of wine has been rising in recent years, the business of many large and small wineries across the country is booming. Therefore, there are more and more drinkers now.

A person's drinking capacity is his courage. Generally, people with good drinking capacity are bold, so most leading cadres have a large capacity for drinking. People with status and status should drink good wine. If you don’t drink Maotai Wuliangye Twenty Years Xifeng Wine, wine accounts for a large part of a meal, so public funds are spent on eating and drinking. If leading cadres do not have the capacity to drink, the cost of public funds for food and drink will naturally come down. I am not naturally gifted with the ability to drink. After one sip, my face turns red and my neck becomes thick. After two ounces, I am so drunk that I almost collapse. When I drink it, my heart and lungs burn like fire. Drinking is as uncomfortable as drinking poison. It is said that "alcohol is the essence of food. The more you drink, the younger you will be." However, some people are suitable for drinking, while others are not suitable for drinking. Now we know that whether you can drink alcohol depends on the amount of aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) in the human body, which is determined by nature. Some people say that drinking ability is something you practice, but that is pure nonsense. After so many years, my drinking ability has not improved at all. It seems that I have no connection with drinking in this life, and I will not be a leading cadre. If I don't have the ability to drink, I'm afraid of going to banquets and serving wine tables. I really can't avoid it, so I have to sit in the corner and never dare to take the initiative to propose a toast. Fortunately, traffic police are now strictly investigating drunk driving everywhere. "I drove here" has become the best excuse not to drink. People who don't drink are also very proud. After a banquet where the cups and plates are messy, "everyone in the world is drunk and I am sober." Today I will tell you the stories of a few drinkers around me and share them with you.

Mr. A has a good drinking capacity and is good at making jokes, so he often becomes the target of everyone at banquets. At the beginning of the banquet, he would often refuse to drink in one way or another, but he could not withstand a few words of advice from others, and gradually started to drink half-heartedly. In the end, he actually took the initiative to compete with others, and he could no longer control himself. At every banquet, he fell down first and vomited like Baotu Spring, so everyone nicknamed him "Baotu Spring". If you drink wine at a banquet, the wine belongs to others and you don’t have to spend money, but your body belongs to you, and if you drink it bad, you have to spend money to treat it.

Mr. B is not a big drinker, but he loves to drink. He just misses it if he doesn’t drink for a few days. Once, we went to a banquet, and the drinking had just begun. He, who usually kept his face calm and his heart not beating no matter how much he drank, turned red after only two small glasses of wine. After a while, he became dizzy, his heartbeat accelerated, and he felt very nervous. Looking uncomfortable. The organizer was so frightened that he asked me and another colleague to rush him to the hospital. On the way, he said he would be sent to a small clinic he often visited, but the doctor at the small clinic didn't dare to admit him when he saw his symptoms, so we had to send him to the emergency department of a large hospital. After half a day of emergency treatment by emergency doctors, he recovered. It turned out that he had been given ampicillin for a cold a week ago. The ampicillin reacted with alcohol and almost killed him. This time taught him a lesson, and he never dared to drink again after taking medicine and injections.

Remember, you must not drink alcohol within a week after taking or taking ampicillin-based drugs!

Mr. C is young and has a limited capacity for drinking, but he is very outgoing. He dares to rush forward boldly when encountering drinking situations. He often knocks himself over before the guests have finished drinking. It's terrible if you get drunk and get drunk. One time at a dinner party, he drank too much before the meal was finished. I drove him home. At first, he was sitting quietly in the passenger seat. After walking for a short distance, maybe because of the uneven and bumpy road, he suddenly vomited and my right arm was covered with dirt. , I quickly stopped the car, opened the car door and let him vomit outside. Seeing that he had almost vomited, I helped him into the car and continued walking. When I got to his door, I pulled him out of the car. Unexpectedly, he looked like a puddle. He fell to the ground like mud and I couldn't help him up at all. I quickly asked his wife to come out, but he went wild and yelled away with curses. He vented out all the grievances and dissatisfactions that he usually kept in his heart and dared not express. Not even his wife could stop her. . Finally, 4 or 5 young men from the work unit came over and they forced him to take him home. It doesn't matter if you drink. It's best not to get drunk. At the very least, don't go crazy when you're drunk. This is also a matter of a person's moral character.

Mr. D was one of my past leaders. He was very motivated and kind-hearted, but he couldn't control himself when he drank. Several times I got too drunk and was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. After I was discharged, I continued to drink. It was not until recently that I was hospitalized for a myocardial infarction and had two stents placed on my body, and I was forced to quit drinking. I finally understand that good health is the most important thing. Without a healthy body, there is nothing.

As the saying goes, drinking makes you brave. If Wu Song hadn't drank eight bowls of wine, how could he dare to fight the tiger on Jingyang Hill? Then I remembered a joke about drinking: it was said that a drunk mouse carried a brick all over the yard while searching, shouting: "Where is the cat? Where is the cat?"

March 7, 2019