Secret second hobbies

Circa 1995, while renting a room above a bar in Juneau, Alaska, one day I heard a racket down the hall. One of the tenants had a snow shovel (this was summer) and was cleaning out the room of another tenant. The room was FULL of beer cans, about 12-18 inches high on every floor space of the unit. The shovel was being used to scoop up the aluminum cans.

Don't know how the drunk who lived there could even have walked around inside. (This incident led me to believe that alcohol does not really dehydrate one--a myth I recently read has been de-bunked. If true this guy would have died from dehydration-but actually I don't know where the guy went, maybe he did die and moved out in a pine box).