Switching teams
Many years ago, when I was living in Holland, I was a regular visitor of a heavy metal message board. The internet was still a new thing then (I’m talking early 2000s here) and the possibility to discuss the finer things in life, like music and drinking, with strangers who were many miles away, without leaving your seat, was still a novel and exciting experience. I don’t remember exactly what the lead-in to the discussion was, but it was something along the lines of someone posting that they had been to a gig and afterwards had gone on the most epic of pub crawls and gotten home at 6 in the morning. This triggered some more tall tales of people running into the mailman when they got home, going to an early bar straight after and more of those familiar party-til-you-drop stories. Someone then interjected that he didn’t understand how people could do shit like that and that he went home straight after a gig to go to sleep because he was a morning person. I was quick out the traps to pr