You woke up with a bruise the size of a small country on your shin and absolutely zero memory of how it got there. No dramatic story. No heroic tale. Just you, a mystery bruise, and the haunting silence of your own bedroom judging you.

The theories start rolling in fast. Maybe you sleepwalked into the coffee table. Maybe a ghost decided your leg looked like a great place to leave a calling card. Maybe your furniture has finally had enough and started fighting back. All perfectly reasonable explanations when you think about it.

Here is the truth: that bruise is not a ghost story or a sleepwalking adventure. It is a tired person story. The kind of tired where your body is physically moving through space but your brain clocked out three hours earlier. Your spatial awareness packed its bags and left the building right around the time you told yourself "just five more minutes" for the fourth time.

Tired people bump into things. Tired people forget things. Tired people also make terrible coffee decisions, which honestly might be the bigger crime in all of this.

The bruise will fade. The lesson should not. Your future self and your future shins are counting on you to take the whole coffee situation a little more seriously before bedtime becomes a full contact sport.

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Roaster Notes:

Nemesis Coffee (​https://www.nemesis.coffee/​ )

Vancouver., BC

In their own words: “Founded in 2017 by local entrepreneur Jess Reno, Nemesis is a hospitality driven, specialty coffee company composed of highly dedicated baristas, chefs, and creatives. We utilize our pursuit of passion, and the spaces we explore them in, as a catalyst to build community and create culture.”

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Your shins deserve better

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