The T Total Dragon

"There is a spy in your company. She will destroy all our stock. Do not let her anywhere close to it". This warning note could be send to one of the biggest wine company in Europe for among her employees is an unusual person. One for who wine is not Gods' elixir. This is no surprise really, dragons are not known for liking alcohol and she is a very strong-minded T Total Dragon.

In our European culture, and even more in England, being a T Total is a social disease. When you're T Total working for a wine company, you become a complete freak. "What?? you are working for a wine company and you don't drink Wine?!" people would tell her. Like you must always enjoy the product your company is selling. Are all the employees of Pfizer taking Viagra? I doubt it…

To add to her misery, The T Total Dragon is French. "What?? you are French, working for a wine company and you don't drink Wine?!" is what people would really tell her. It might be a shame to be French and not drink wine but is enjoying your country’s products an obligation too? Not sure the vegetarian Kiwi would say so, poor souls missing out on the world's most famous lamb. 

In the end you don’t need to be a freak to freak out people. Unfulfill one of their prejudices and they’ll nicely put you in a little box stamped “Freak”. “Really what is wrong with you?” she’s been asked many times, “why don’t you drink wine?”. This only pinpoints that in London (maybe more than anywhere else) not drinking is view as a flaw.

She is a very confident T Total Dragon; a metal music lover, usually wearing black clothes, amplifying her pale skin. “I don’t drink” she’ll simply state. If you have a problem with her not drinking it only means you have a problem. She is happy to remind you that. Sadly, in a city where drinking is a social habit, she is not making much point stating this truth. Being shy and straightforward can make you look like an asocial bitch when you only are a T Total Dragon.