{"id":395,"date":"2026-05-11T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:50:00","slug":"1989-how-we-somehow-fell-face-first-into-humanitys-ultimate-social-lubricant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/1989-how-we-somehow-fell-face-first-into-humanitys-ultimate-social-lubricant\/","title":{"rendered":"1989: How We Somehow Fell Face-First Into Humanity\u2019s Ultimate Social Lubricant\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-403\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500190244273648;width:320px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5700-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starting a coffee business nowadays sounds like opening a TikTok account and posting three motivational quotes, but in 1989 it felt more like trying to build an espresso empire using emotional damage and a phone book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that completely unhinged day <a href=\"https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/march-1-1989-the-day-i-should-have-stayed-in-bed\/\">when Jaco and I met inside Ikea<\/a>, right at the exact point where logic quietly packs its belongings and leaves without saying goodbye, my life permanently transformed into a flatpack disaster with missing instructions and we immediately started dating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While going out together, we quickly started talking about what we wanted to do with our future and how we both secretly preferred becoming our own bosses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, in 1989, was roughly the equivalent of announcing:<br>\u201cWe\u2019re just popping over to renovate the moon tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then it was still fairly revolutionary for two barely-22-year-olds to think: maybe we don\u2019t actually want to spend the rest of our lives voluntarily sitting in office jobs while our souls slowly stare out the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays every 2.5-year-old toddler 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ants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaco heard this and immediately decided this was the perfect moment to make our lives unnecessarily complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s how the idea was born to import Italian espresso coffee into the Netherlands and start selling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without a plan.<br>Without experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And apparently also without a functioning fear response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But absolutely WITH a level of confidence that, in hindsight, should probably have been medically examined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh\u2026<br>And with the logistical capabilities of a deeply confused goldfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks later I called my Italian friend to inform her about our grand and entirely unsupported plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then (1985) I spent every summer a couple of months in Italy and had gotten to know the family well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend\u2019s father had previously worked for another coffee roasting company before eventually starting his own business in 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honestly, why hang posters of celebrities on your wall when you can decorate your bedroom with empty coffee bags instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May of 1989, Jaco got a great job as a sales representative for environmentally friendly industrial water purification products and water treatment systems.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bespreking1-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bespreking1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bespreking1-600x502.jpg 600w, https:\/\/brightsightseeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bespreking1.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Which sort of sounds like getting your brain flushed clean.<br>Not with a toilet brush and chlorine, obviously, although honestly, that might still improve certain people, but with some kind of futuristic machine where you shove your head through an opening like a mildly concerned cow, get giant tubes attached to your ears and then three liters of cinnamon, pizza herbs, and environmentally responsible snail slime get violently blasted through your nervous system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds stable.<br>Sounds logical.<br>Sounds exactly like something completely normal people would do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this astonishingly purifying job, we were meanwhile obsessively trying to figure out how to become self-employed without eventually falling victim to a manager who used the word \u2018team spirit\u2019 like it was some legally required personality disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point I didn\u2019t have a job, which was actually entirely according to plan, because somebody obviously had to professionally coordinate the upcoming 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