What are we to make of all of the scenes of Venezuelans celebrating last night's SMO?

[Hellbound Hellhound]

23. Definitely a different animal than anything in the North.

I was the designated "Northern white boy" because I could just hang out in the station's fridge for hours stocking drinks and frozen food without issue, but ask me to step outside out of the AC? Notsomuch. XD

Obviously climate has a huge part of it; in the fall, winter and some spring seasons, parties would ramp the second 2 AM rolled around. Super-tricked-out, Grand Theft Auto-style vehicles rolling in (Full paint jobs and hydraulics and speaker systems), normally in crews of six to ten, often smoking cigs or weed at the pump. We loved the business but we hated the conflict that inevitably came. Unfortunately, I've seen a few people get deleted at my station, but that's why we forced a closure from 2-4 AM even though we were "Technically" a 24/7 operation.