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Skiing and Booze!

12/1/2016

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As those of you who have read my book ‘One Less for the Road’ will know, one of my clients invites me every year to go skiing with the rest of the company. When I used to drink I was never invited and thought nothing of it as I am not a full-time employee, only a consultant. What I never realised is that I was such a drunkard I was viewed as both a liability and a potential embarrassment and that’s why the invitation was never extended to me. It’s awful to think I missed out because the management didn’t want their French staff to see what a drunk they were employing in London, and because I might have injured myself on the slopes and wrecked the weekend for everyone. It’s only because I have such a long standing relationship with the owners of the company I was probably tolerated at all.

Now things are different. This will be my third year skiing with them and we fly out to Lyon tomorrow. There will be Nordic skiing for me, raquette walks through the forests, sledging, snow ball fights and a whole lot more besides. In the evening I will certainly be the only sober member of the party and I don’t care because I know I will have just as much fun as everyone else, I don’t have to worry about making a fool of myself, and in the morning I will be up with the larks whereas everyone else will be nursing a sore head. I am so lucky I knocked the booze on the head.
I will post and let you know how it goes. Now let’s hope for some snow in France!

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