Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/08
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At 8:55 PM -0500 11/8/01, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 05:19 PM 11/8/01 -0800, Henning Wulff wrote:
>>Fortunately my alcohol tolerance was fairly high at the time, as I
>>had been in training in Munich for most of a year.
>
>Enquiring minds just HAVE to know: in training for WHAT? How do I get to
>spend a year training in Munich to raise my alcohol tolerance? Why do you
>guys always get all of the fun!
>
>Marc
>
I went to Munich mainly so that I could go skiing every weekend and
holiday. The beer was just a side benefit.
I worked for Siemens & Halske in a physics lab to make sure I had
enough money to spend on beer and skiing (and other entertainments).
Working in Munich _requires_ constant beer intake. Most of the then
older people had coffee breaks and coffee cups next to their desks
and test benches; the younger ones tended to have beers going most of
the time. Once or twice a week we had full office parties that lasted
from noon til end of the day, which involved beer, some kind of
strong punch mixed in vats from the chemistry department (upstairs),
sausages cooked in similar vats and pastries to finish things off.
Morale was high.
After work on weekdays we'd go out to a beer garden. Weekends my
friends and I would tend to stay more sober so that we could ski
well, and also to make driving to St. Anton and St. Moritz possible.
It's amazing that anything productive happens in Bavaria.
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