Recently a longtime friend of mine and I started recording a weekly podcast and on the podcast he made a quick comment about how I got him fired from his job. On the podcast I am quick to point the finger back at him and claim it was his own negligence that led to his firing and not mine. We laugh and let the podcast go on.
Since the podcast I have been asked how I manged to get Brett fired so let me tell you the story.
Brett was living in a quiet mountain town called Groveland for awhile and he would come down periodically for weekly visits. Now my memory of this may be incorrect. He might have only made weekend visits, but because in my younger days sleep was not something I was looking to do, in my head it feels like a week long excursion. Regardless the point of this long paragraph is that he visited.
On his visits we would play a lot of video games, watch a lot of King of The Hill, make trips with all of our friends to the casino, go out to eat, and get gnarly at a local punk rock show. In order to sustain energy and not being into coffee yet we began to the consumption of energy drinks. I vividly remember our 2am trips to the corner store because the excitement I felt as I walked up the glass cases that contained the energy drinks was similar to what I felt as a kid on Christmas day. We'd make our energy drink selections and then ride the surge of energy until we crashed and woke up on the floor of my room disoriented with dry mouths.
Drinking energy drinks began to snowball for Brett when he moved to Groveland and as it turns out he ended up needing the crash from an energy drink to fall asleep. He would drink 2 energy drinks at night in order to fall asleep and it led to health problems and him losing the job at the diner up in Groveland.
So I guess you can make your own decision on who's fault it is or if it was just the ebb and flow of life.
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