Mild Substance Abuse at Work

A while ago at work someone was giving away these pint sized cans of Rockstar energy drink. I had had no breakfast and had a lot of work to do before I could have lunch, so I thought this would be the ideal thing to keep my performance up until I could eat. I downed the can and went about my business. I soon found myself feeling very hot and sweaty, and it was just me. Nevermind I thought, continued with my work. At the time I thought I was being normal but my colleagues later said I had a crazed look about me as I did shedloads of work at lightspeed. I even postponed lunch because I was getting so much work done it seemed a shame to interrupt it. Eventually though I began to feel a bit odd and sick, my hands had begun to shake uncontrollably and my mind was racing through a million thoughts a second. I forced myself to go and eat something before I passed out. I sat in the canteen at work, looking out of the 6th floor window, and noticed something which I had noticed plenty of times before, but it seemed more significant now: Chimney pots, there are hundreds of chimneypots on the surrounding houses. I did a quick count and estimated I could see well over 1000 chimney pots.

I didn't feel quite right again until 8pm that night. It was weird, but I did kind of enjoy it, even if I did suspect I might implode.