TimeForAction posted...
Bowling alley. I dont want to be the weird forty year old at the roller rink
This reminds me of a story.
Back in the early 2000s, me and some of my friends would occasionally go to the Culture Club (a dance club in NYC that exclusively plays 80s music and is decorated like the 80s, had 80s movies and videos playing on TV screens, etc). And every time we were there, we saw an older middle aged dude who was wearing this white suit with a pastel undershirt (full-on Miami Vice vibe), who was clearly living his best possible life trying his hardest to pretend the 80s never ended. And he was usually the life of the place.
But he also had a bit of an unkempt beard. And his hair was a little scraggly. And my friends and I were utterly convinced that he was a homeless dude whose life just completely bottomed out, and the last time he remembered being happy and in control was the 80s, so he just went to the club to try and relive that time. Our theory was that he had a bus locker or somewhere else safe where he'd keep the suit, and he'd beg for change all day, and whenever he managed to save up about $20 (the cover-charge to get in to the club), he'd go "bathe" in a public bathroom sink, throw on his suit, head to the club, and just for a night he could pretend it was the 80s again, and he was on top of the world. Then the night would end, he'd take the suit off, pack it safely away, and then go sleep in an alley somewhere.
We could have been completely off-base. But that dude lived rent-free in our heads for a long time.