claudio rivera

extreme hanging

i wish there was a place that was open 24 hours, that had couches and chairs, board games, video games, a bathroom, and was free to the general public. is that too much to ask for? haha.

now, i know what you’re thinking. that sounds like somebody’s house! but, here’s the deal. it’s one thing for me to show up uninvited at a friend’s house (some friends like it. others don’t). the thing about my ideal fantasy hang out place is that i could not only show up uninvited at any given moment, but i could bring a posse of people.

the closest thing i can think of is a coffee shop, but most aren’t open all night. in addition to that, most coffee shops don’t look highly on someone buying a $2 cup of coffee and hanging out all day. and perkins/denny’s is expensive and not very comfortable, in regards to furniture and such.

anyway, after much thinking, i think i’ve stumbled on a couple solutions.

1. the entire place is sponsored by mountain dew or red bull! they get hundreds of impressions (or whatever marketing people call eyeballs) and direct marketing to a niche group of late night socialites and gamers. you could call it “dew’s place” or “the red bull lounge”. eh?
2. memberships! i’m not sure about you, but i would pay $10-20/month for the privilege of having a place to hang, any time i want. it could even be like a credit union, where you have to know people to get in! i guess you could sell snacks and soda, too. maybe the mountain dew and red bull people could help subsidize that cost? haha

surely, i’m not the only person on this planet that’s thought of this, right? what are your thoughts??

i know i’m not perfect, but i’d like to think that i have a fair amount of common sense. i try to keep the ice cube tray and brita filter full; i keep receipts and gum wrappers in my pocket, until i find a garbage can to throw them in; etc.

i’m not trying to toot my own horn here, but i can’t help but point out when other people just can’t seem to grasp the concept of really sensible things. more specifically, leaving things where they make very little sense. thus is born a new concept i’m (sarcastically) calling “yup, that’s where that goes!”

welcome to submission #1:

who needs a cart corral?

i’ve walked around target aisles for many hours, in my time and i’ve never complained or broken a sweat. but, unload a few bags into your trunk, and you can start to feel a tiny hint of this crazy thing people call excercise. and that’s what i find the most interesting about this picture. i would venture to guess that it would take a less energy to push a wheeled cart 30 feet into a corral than it takes to lift the entire thing up and onto a sidewalk/curb.

so, why would someone do it? well, i don’t know why the first guy did. but, the rest of these folks obviously saw an example set and decided that this was the proper protocol for this particular store. i mean, most places (including this one) have cart corrals. but, i guess it made sense to some to just follow the leader.

whatever the explanation, this is exactly the type of submissions i’m looking for. hopefully, i’m not alone in my self-righteousness, and there are other humans out there who chuckle or become bewildered by the decisions of others, in cases of proper placement of objects. if you’ve got something you’d like to share with a fellow curmudgeon, send it my way and i’ll be happy to post it.