@kaydoh Said 
I love the English on the whole, but sometimes..just sometimes I feel ashamed to be one of them, like when you see them in their grey socks and sandals singing in the streets at 3am in foreign countries! or throwing up outside of clubs!
You are so right. Once I was working at a PR firm in Manchester, and we went over to Bellamadina on the coast of Spain. The bosses got so tanked up, they could hardly walk. We lost one in the gent's toilet, and as most of the crowd at that restaurant were women, none of us would go get him, knowing perfectly well he had probably fallen asleep on the loo. We encouraged one man to go after him, and we lost them both. We had a plane to catch and so we were short one or two guys, and had to physically extract them from the men;s toilets so we could go back to Manchester and not miss our plane.
One the way to the airport in the coach, the MD complained of sickness, and I had to give him something to vomit in. It was highly embarrassing, and I was so ashamed of the group I was with, that I apologized to all the staff at the various restaurants and cafes, and especially the hotel staff who were openly disgusted by the goings on of some of the senior members of our company.
I suggested we have a t-shirt printed with "If we are behaving ourselves we are British, and if we are not behaving ourselves, we are German" (sorry Germany, no disrespect intended). Disgraceful. I am glad it is only a small minority who show us up, they just cannot handle their drink. And it is always something to do with the drink. Shameful.
I started looking for another job shortly after that episode.
Oct 09, 2011 @ 19:13:34
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