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I missed the sunrise when I was in Cambodia, so I went to Angkor Wat during sunset instead. It was amazing.

The place was almost empty. I walked around for over an hour while the remaining tourists left and then sat at the entrance and shared a beer with my driver. It was such a great experience. I don't think I took any photos either..

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Off topic, but can you unpack "shared a beer with my driver" for me a little? Like, the two of you split a beer? Did you have the beer and offer some to your driver, or did your driver have the beer and offer some to you?

What difference does it make? Two people shared a beer, that's all.

"Share a beer" is, as I've always used it, a shorthand expression for "shared time, conversation, and company with someone, while drinking beers".

It's just a simple expression that takes the place of a bunch of concurrent activities.

It's funny, because I've got a few pictures that sum up exactly what you said about this single expression. I don't have many, but I greatly value the pictures I've taken that retell the story of a certain event to me.

In this context it doesn't usually imply that they literally both drank from a single beer. Just that they each drank a beer in one another's company.

Read as: “shared a beer break”

Just like sharing a coffee doesn't literally mean drinking from a communal cup, but means taking a coffee break.

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