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Tequila, A Christmas Story
Alonso Carranza de la Parra
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Tequila, a Christmas story.
Every single year, around Christmas time, the Garcia family held a family reunion, and they gathered the entire family not only to celebrate Christmas, they also celebrated grandma’s birthday which was on December 18. This year’s meeting was taking place on Jose Garcia’s house, and it was going to be a special meeting because Grandma Maria was turning 85 years old, so everyone in the family was excited and they wanted to join grandma in this huge celebration, so every single member of the Garcia family took the trip to Guadalajara, the Garcias from Mexico City, the Garcias from Sinaloa, the Garcias from Monterrey, and even the Garcias that lived in Arizona and Los Angeles, California.
When they all arrived in Guadalajara, everyone was happy to see each other again, the little ones played soccer with their primos and the aunts chatted while they smoked cigarettes. Everyone was happy, except for Jose Garcia, this was because his brother, Oscar Garcia was also in the meeting, they have had a big problem between them, before Oscar moved to Arizona, and Jose had not forgiven him since that day, even though that the problem was 5 years ago. When they first met, Jose Garcia didn’t even say hello to his brother, this made Oscar Garcia feel very sad, because he thought that after all this time, maybe his brother could forget what happened. So the party kept going and everyone was having a great time except for Jose and Oscar. And the time came for the “Tequila Contest” this contest consisted that every male member of the family, uncles, cousins and even grandpa, gathered around a table and drink as many tequila shots as they could drink, and the one who drank the most, was the winner and would win the big price of $2,000 pesos. So the tequila started flowing and the contest was on, everyone was able to handle the first 3 shots, but after the fourth one, some of the contestants started having trouble, the first ones to abandon the competition were Pedro and his brother Pablo after 4 shots. The Tequila kept flowing and soon enough there were just 3 contestants left, Jose Garcia, Oscar Garcia and uncle Nacho, who was the favorite to win the contest, but surprisingly after the 18 shot, he decided to quit. So now it was all left for Jose and Oscar, they didn’t even said a word to each other, they just kept drinking. After the 25 shot, they started showing sings of weakness, their legs started to tremble, but after the 30 shot, Jose couldn’t drink anymore, he felt like he was about to die, but just for his pride, and not letting his brother win, he poured more tequila in the glass. His brother Oscar, noticed that Jose could drink anymore shots, and even when he felt that he could still drink some more and beat him, he quit the contest and let Jose win.
After the contest, they were both wasted, 30 tequila shots ain’t no small thing, so they started dancing and singing those Vicente Fernandez songs they liked so much when they were young, and soon enough they decided to talk about the problem they had, so finally they apologized each other, and it was all forgotten, Jose and Oscar became close brothers again!
What we can learn from this story is that, Tequila brings families together.
