Perhaps they are out at midnight because they don’t have anywhere to be the next morning and they usually get up at noon.
There is an entire class of people who get up in the afternoon and go to bed in the wee hours. Because Why NOT.
This man doesnt know them.
There are also people that work afternoon and night shifts. I’m not saying that this is the bulk of the WalMart 3-AM crowd, but if I worked afternoons and got off work at midnight, It wouldn’t be a horribly bad idea to do some shopping at 0100 hrs when the stores were not quite so crowded.
On the Social Security 800 number, that's when the SSI calls start coming in quantity. Before 12 it's calls from RSI folks who worked to pay for the SSIers. It's particulary funny when some SSI type asks you how much they "earn". As with everything, there are exceptions to the deadbeat rules. (PS. I'm not a call center person. Hear a lot of stories.)