Yesterday, my boss advised me to go home and do some quick shots of whiskey to get over my lingering head cold. This is what they do in Korea, he says.
On my way home on the subway, I end up sitting next to a very tall, very inebriated guy in a bright red track suit. “You going home?” he asks me.
“Yes.”
He slumps back over his lap in a stupor.
At the next stop, he perks up. “Now, I’m going home, too,” he says, patting my knee.
“Uh, OK,” I think. “Nice chatting with you.”
Later, on the neighborhood (마을) bus idling at the subway stop, a gentleman old enough to be my grandfather staggers up the stairs a few minutes after me. He labors to line up his T-money card with the white outline on the electronic fare reader. After a few tries, he gets it right and then straightens up to gaze toward the back of the vehicle. At first, I think he is waiting for someone to offer him a seat, but I look around and see that there are plenty of empty ones. He then moves forward, weaving back and forth, to a seat at the back of the bus, falls into it and slumps over. I should note that the bus itself was still parked this whole time.
It looks like a lot of people are taking the local cold cure.
{ 4 comments }
Your Brother 02.14.07 at 5:58 am
Works for me!!
Kay 02.15.07 at 3:30 am
My mom used to make the mixture of whiskey, honey and lemon juice for a cough. The honey coated the throat, the whiskey warmed you up and the lemon juice helped it all go down.
I say give it a try. Can’t hurt, right?
Aunt Patty O'Furniture 02.16.07 at 12:46 am
The honey, whiskey, lemon juice mixture is a proven success. It requires equal parts of each, and you can use vodka instead of whiskey if you have to. Sip a teaspoon (I do more, of course). A pediatrician recommended it for a baby that had a cold but was too small for the regular cold medicines. Obviously the dose was tiny, but it helped open the passages and aided sleep. I have no data as to how many brain cells it killed. Aren’t you well by now?
Michelle 02.17.07 at 5:42 am
Substitute Lemoncello for the Lemon…can you get Maker’s Mark over there or do we need to send some?
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