..Deep SpacePosted on 08/27/2005 9:22:50 AM PDT by kingattax
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- The Mall of America has a 74-foot Ferris wheel, a shark tank and a dinosaur museum. And now, if all that tires you out, a nap store will sell you some shuteye for 70 cents a minute.
The new store will be called MinneNAPolis. It's just the thing for shoppers -- or their spouses -- who get worn out traversing the more than four miles of storefronts in the Minnesota mall.
Founded by PowerNap Sleep Centers of Boca Raton, Fla., the new store will include at least three themed rooms: Asian Mist, Tropical Isle and Deep Space. Each will have walls thick enough to drown out the sounds of squealing children at the indoor amusement park.
The fee of 70 cents per minute works out to $42 an hour. Some said it would be cheaper to buy an $8 movie ticket and spend two hours sleeping through a movie.
..Deep Space
Asian Mist..........Tropical Isle
If they don't go bankrupt within a month their customers need keepers!
Do they allow couples?
I have a feeling that costumers will find alternative uses for the beds.
A movie ticket for $36 less or save even more going home.
Especially during Halloween.
Yeah, I can already see unintended consequences...
umm...why don't the people just go home?
My experiences in Minneapolis, convinced me that many of the folks there are already asleep on their feet.....
I suspect the cold weather, heavy dose of leftist "progressives" and excess of French speakers are to blame..
Semper Fi
Can they promise that I can fall asleep? If so, I might be a customer.
For $42 an hour, there is only one thing that is going to be happening there. For their sake, I hope they check ID's!
??? French ???
Uffda! I've been there many times and you hear German and various Scandinavian, but I've never heard a "Oui" in the state.
Almost nobody from Minnesota goes to the MoA - it's clientele is primarily out-of-state tourists.
At 70 cents a minute, they'd better.
I plop my derriere down in the "waiting husband" section while my wife tries on three to four hundred outfits. At first I would just say that they all looked great.
But I've since found that the key is to pick some random number like one hundred and sixty five, wait for her to show me that number, and say it's REALLY REALLY REALLY MEGA-GREAT. That will of course have no bearing on what she picks or if she picks anything at all. It does serve to show I'm "in the game" and typically hurries things up.
I wish women's clothing stores would carry power tools. That would help a lot. A few router tables and hand sanders and time would fly.
Good idea. Rent out 10x10 enclosed rooms by the minute for consenting adults to tryst in. They already do this with motels, but you've got to take those by the day.
Do they offer clean sheets after each user?
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