Had to sit through an ENDLESS ******* staff conference today. You hate government bureaucrats? You should meet academic bureaucrats!
It was either putting a bullet through my temple (I don't keep my dueling pistols in the office) OR stuffing my sorrows with wake-up-with-a-slap Levi Garrett snuff which I squirrel in my desk drawer for precisely such perils. It was a life-saver.
The whole ritual also distracted the blathering ******* department head enough that he lost his train of thought and probaly skipped a few brays of the obvious points he felt obligated to make.
Snuff can save your life, I tell ya!