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How To Master The Art Of Business Dinners

 You thought you had this whole eating thing down pat. Now you learn that there's a whole set of rules to dining with prospective clients. You do some research and find information about everything from what knife to use with what food and what type of food is acceptable to eat, since you don't want to be messy. You think that if you can memorize these things that you'll be able to get more deals done. However, dining etiquette doesn't matter at all when it comes to getting business deals done. What matters is your ability to get absolutely hammered and joke around with your potential clients. 

Look, you've probably been in an office all day or traveling to get to this meeting, and your clients probably have been dealing with the same thing. It's understandable that there will be some drinks, but you probably didn't realize how many. You imagined that there would at least be some level of restraint when it came to the number of drinks consumed, especially since you were supposed to talk business details. You thought maybe someone will order three drinks at the most, but that ended up just being the beginning. It turns out your potential clients want to get really loose before beginning to talk about business. 

How are you supposed to talk coherently after 12 shots? It turns out you don't really need to, since the potential clients are just looking to have a good time. The next morning, you wake up with a bad hangover and check your email. You really aren't sure what happened, but the potential clients have sent over an email stating that they're interested in doing business with you. You're surprised and begin to start doing a celebratory dance, only to be quickly reminded by a lot of nausea that you're still very hungover. 


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