[SATLUG] Bruce Bowen

[John Champion]

 I have been watching this thread with some interest.  I have heard these
stories about people who work better drunk or stoned since I was very small
mainly due to the fact my father was an undiagnosed alcoholic.  My 
own experience is that it is a load of crap.   In one day while I was in 
the military 30 years ago, an acid freak and a drunk together put six men
from my unit in the hospital.  I was one of the injured.  My ankle still
hurts when the weather changes.  If you are going to get wasted and do
something stupid, lock yourself in the garage, get just as drunk or stoned
as you want, make sure you are ALL alone, and play with a 16p nail gun.  If
someone operated a piece of equipment better when they were messed up than
when straight, they didn't need to be using that machine in EITHER
condition. M2C--YMMV,  Dennis Myhand
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Look folks...the hitch mechanic that I worked with was just that. He used
his welder and cutting torch to create custom trailer hitches for people who
needed them. Moreover, he was a stoner. He really truly was the world's most
incompetent employee when he was sober. His work brought in so much money
that one of our company's executives (this was for a publicly traded, world
class company that deals with rv's and trailers) instructed local management
to look the other way. How do I know? I was the assistant manager. Yes...if
you put anyone in direct contact with a hallucinagen, don't be surprised by
the results. But in this guy's case, all the stuff did was make him
comfortable and relaxed. And charging people $65/hr to build a hitch back in
the mid-80s was generating a lot of income because he'd work 15-18 hour
days. Would I hire someone like that? No.

But this joker was really good when baked and pretty bad when sober. He also
didn't have an expense in the world because he moved into his late-mother's
house, had no cable or phone, paid off his truck, and basically lived debt
free.