Is Smashing Things a Good Way To Relieve Stress? (Clients of the Anger Room Sure Think So)
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2012/05/13 00:28:56
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Have you ever had such a bad day that you just wanted to break something? Or maybe throw a piece of furniture across the room? Well, now a Texas entrepreneur has devised a socially acceptable way for you to spew your rage.
The Anger Room is the brainchild of Donna Alexander, who first launched the business out of her garage. Friends seeking to relieve stress would come over and take baseball bats to old junk in the room. When word got out about what they were doing, strangers began to show up and demand became too much to handle. That’s when Alexander decided to turn the Anger Room into a legitimate business.
The Anger Room is the brainchild of Donna Alexander, who first launched the business out of her garage. Friends seeking to relieve stress would come over and take baseball bats to old junk in the room. When word got out about what they were doing, strangers began to show up and demand became too much to handle. That’s when Alexander decided to turn the Anger Room into a legitimate business.
Now when clients come to the Anger Room’s new location in a Dallas strip mall, they are decked out in safety goggles and helmets to protect themselves. They then enter a room filled with old furniture and electronics, arranged to look like an office, bedroom, or kitchen. Once inside, anything is fair game. You can smash, break, throw, and destroy to your heart’s content.
If you want, you can also take out relationship stress on mannequins. Alexander told a Dallas TV station that some customers “put pictures on them, write on them, and then they try to beat the crap out of them.”
Anger Room sessions are available in three time options: “I need a Break!”—$25 for 5 minutes; “Lash Out”—$45 for 15 minutes; and “Total Demolition”—$75 for 25 minutes. The rates are pretty affordable considering you don’t have to collect the items or do any of the setup and cleanup.
Read More: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/12/go-ahead-smash...
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chamchamgal 2012/05/13 02:13:53
Wretha
Looks like first-world problems just found a first-world solution. Sigh.
And when I get cursed out from some moron customer who can't understand the simplest thing or that they placed an online order and they themselves did not enter a credit card but set it as cash and it was not MY fault it's not in as a credit card payment but their own...... The general public makes me angry. Common sense is not common anymore and dealing with the general public on a daily basis makes me a.) fear for the sake of humanity, b.) want to smash my head in from the insane amounts of stupidity people display, and/or c.) want to kill/destroy something.
Then add in not having enough competent staff members, drivers who throw a temper tantrum like a two year old when they do not get the big orders and curse you out cause they weren't lucky enough to be in the store AND clocked back in from being on a delivery at EXACTLY the right moment.... -_______________- SQUID OF ANGER!!!!!***
***If you get the reference I will love you ...
And when I get cursed out from some moron customer who can't understand the simplest thing or that they placed an online order and they themselves did not enter a credit card but set it as cash and it was not MY fault it's not in as a credit card payment but their own...... The general public makes me angry. Common sense is not common anymore and dealing with the general public on a daily basis makes me a.) fear for the sake of humanity, b.) want to smash my head in from the insane amounts of stupidity people display, and/or c.) want to kill/destroy something.
Then add in not having enough competent staff members, drivers who throw a temper tantrum like a two year old when they do not get the big orders and curse you out cause they weren't lucky enough to be in the store AND clocked back in from being on a delivery at EXACTLY the right moment.... -_______________- SQUID OF ANGER!!!!!***
***If you get the reference I will love you forever.
Taking my anger out on VIRTUAL PIXELS is FAR healthier than not being able to control it enough to get home and ACTUALLY killing/maming a live person. It's a stress relief and everyone needs one. It's just what works for me.
I don't have a lot of the same outlets I did growing up, namely sports, so I have to find others. Wailing on a punching back is also a good workout so it works in more than one way. And playing some of the video game and slaughtering countless zombies (the virtual pixels mentioned earlier) is also a nice distraction from the real world for a short period of time. Most of the time when I get home from work everyone else is in bed so I can't really blast music AND sing along to it.
I'm thinking of starting a youtube vlog for a creative outlet which I am also lacking. Which will also let me rant a bit and talk it out which I don't get the opportunity to do very often. Hmm. I need to learn how to edit video. It doesn't help that I'm technology challenged sometimes. Although I have found that threatening my laptop with a short flight out of the second story window will get it to work with me. o.o Funny how that actually works. Technology has a life of it's own a swear. (and apparently it values its own life too. Kinda creepy if you ask me.)
***edited for a grotesques misspelling
Add an outdoor gun range,
Lay hands upon a full auto M-16 or similar (I used an M-16)
Everything will be good, all will be right with the world.
Well almost everything, but it will be so much fun,..
(if the video is boring, jump to 1.38 mark and play with sound on full)