The end of the year is often reason to celebrate success or forgot about the failure of the current year and look forward to a new year. Many companies organise parties for this event and invite all staff to a free booze and food session. I was wondering if this would be the same in Russia or will the have a civilized talk, shake hands and have a cup of tea… Well today I was about to find it out.
Having travelled again through the beautiful metro stations the expedition metro entered the first station at around 23.00 and what I saw was more than I could bargain for…
The metro was packed with wobbly people that just about mentioned to enter the tiny opening of the metro (around 3 meters large), some didn’t even manage to get on board and where sitting on the bench with some kind of euphoric smile and a plastic bag with silly cooperate goodies in it. At the ticket office a smell of sweat and alcohol was so strong that it managed to make lean against it, two men were both responsible for it but nobody cared.
The overall state of the people in the metro could be described as a celebration of drunkenness on the expenses of the company and with their permission! Does this get any better?
After having spoken to several locals it turns out that the last 4 days leading up to the New Year are spend like this, and people do no shake the alcohol blaze for days. Resulting in women asking to deliver their baby earlier to prevent them from not having a drunk doctor.Hey, a doctor has the right to celebrate too….
In any case, I had a pretty good time observing everybody and I even made two friends…
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