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Thursday 21st June 2012 | Osh
Granted, a lot of us like a few drinks. But it takes a lot of effort to drink yourself into the front row of an A&E waiting room at your local hospital. According to a recent statistic however, alcohol related injuries and illnesses account for 14 per cent of all A&E visits. In numbers, this is approximately two million cases a year in England and Wales. Two million. Two million people who were either a bit tipsy or blind drunk, or somewhere in between and were stupid enough to try and jump over that six foot fence blindfolded/ wrestle that bouncer who had it coming/ stop a car with their fists. All good examples, and have all probably occurred to someone at some point on a night out.
And these figures, if we hadn’t already known, tell us that alcohol makes us stupid. Which is true. The figures also tell us that alcohol allows for great stories to tell your mates. Mostly stories which involve various scars, but a story’s a story. And as long as people need alcohol to make them fun – and I can’t deny that this is most of us – then there will always be the odd accident. But it comes to something when you’re crawling across the sterile linoleum of A&E begging someone to remove part of your foreskin from your zipper. So, unless you want it to come to this, reel it in a bit – that’s a scar you don’t want.
