We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could. Ken Kesey
About This Quote

In the late 1980s, a group of friends from Chicago's South Side would get together to drink and play music. They called themselves Thelonious Monster, and they were a tight-knit crew. This quote is from a passage in the memoir of one of their singer/songwriters, Dan Zanes. In this passage, Zanes tells a story about a day in the life of his bandmates after a particularly fun gig.

He details how he and his friends were hanging out at a bus stop waiting for the bus when they happened to run across a can of beer. They took turns drinking from it while sitting on their next-to-last can of beer. After they ran out of beer, Zanes and his friends just sat there on the curb and talked about the night before and how much fun it had been.

Source: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

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