It's a drug, it effects your behaviour/mood, you must have done some weird shit on it
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I once met an old journalist that ran a bed and breakfast in southern Ontario. Great guy who worked for the Toronto Star for several years in the 60s and 70s.
He said that work was a lot more hectic back then because everything was manual and you had constant deadlines with no conveniences. He said that his day started at about 5 or 6 and depending on how busy the day was, he'd be in bed by 2 or 3 or not at all to make a deadline.
He said he drank coffee but at one point drinking so much liquid was forcing them to go to the bathroom so much that he and a few others opted to start just eating the coffee beans instead. They got the caffeine kick without wanting to pee.
He suffered a massive heart attack in his 50s, slowed down after, quit eating coffee beans and retired in his 60s.
I assume they were all smoking nonstop as well, I’m surprised he even made it to 60
I remember him saying that after he saw a couple of his colleagues who were the same age, doing the same thing die either doing their work or shortly after ... he realized his time was up and he just retired before it killed him. Yes he said he did smoke like everyone, just not as heavily as most and he quit earlier than most.
He said he saw the writing on the wall and knew that if he continued, he would have died at his desk .... so he and his wife just packed it all in, sold everything they had in the city, moved to the country and opened a bed and breakfast instead.
His place was amazing tho ... they had a small library that was filled with all his old magazine, newspaper work, books, prints, documents, papers, everything ... and when you sat with him, he could sit for days telling you stories. This was all about 20 years ago and the old guy (he was in his 70s at the time) is probably gone now but what a character.
Yeah he definitely definitely sounds like a character, fucking off from your 9-5 to open a bed and breakfast is king shit