Ah, getting high on the job.
It’s generally a pastime reserved for the acne speckled wake n’ bake professionals who man your local Taco Bell drive through. But even the most celebrated and respected T.V. reporters do it sometimes too. In fact, some of them even get paid to do it during work – while the cameras are rolling for an international audience. Like BBC reporter Quentin Sommerville (below). To be fair, this chemical cosmonaut anchor’s adventure was more of an opportunistic one, seeing as he was meant to be merely reporting on that giant pile of fiery smack behind him.
Not, ya know, deeply inhaling it like he kept turning around and doing.
You know, it probably didn’t help that his whole camera crew that we can’t see (but can hear snickering) was getting fluffed up off of puff-able atmospheric opium too. Even when you’ve got the sober giggles, your biggest downfall is someone else catching it – right before mowing down the rest of the group’s grip on gravity. Add a few deep nourishing breaths of bliss smoke, and it’s a full on outbreak of productivity attacking ebola for at least the next half hour. You might as well just hand the story to one of your colleagues. One with a better tolerance (thanks to dedicated practice on evenings and weekends).
And speaking of colleagues, you’ve gotta wonder just how many of them argue over who gets to do these free breathable painkiller pieces when they pop up. As I saw homie standing there – soaking up the smoke between takes like my dog with her head out my car’s window, basking in the breeze – I thought to myself, “I feel like this guy doesn’t do this kinda thing nearly enough.” It took me a second to look at his background (I don’t watch enough BBC to recognize him) and realize that I’m probably not terribly far off – seeing as the guy normally serves as the host to an ongoing series of IRL blood and bullet shows happening in war torn countries.
Homie probably sees a lot of awful stuff while working those gigs.
Thus, I say a guy like that probably needs a dose of this sort’ve assignment at least once a week.
‘cause even the highly respected need their respective highs sometimes too.