OPEN ALL NIGHT

There aren’t very many places in my city that can claim this. And in the city of Mediocrity I could hardly blame them. After all we are hardly the capital of night life.

What do we have that stays open all night amounts basically to this one pharmacy and also a fast food place. We did have a grocery store that tried it for a while, but frankly they couldn’t find any help who could stay up all night and once the crooks figured out the people would be napping when they went inside, that ended that experiment.

For the most part I’m rather glad so many public places in my city aren’t open all night. Of course with things like hospitals, police and fire departments they have no choice, but to man the phones all night long. Naturally if you do call the cops or fire department you have to let it ring several times. However they will answer you sooner or later. Maybe the guy who answers will yawn a lot and he may ask you to repeat your information a couple of times, but he will answer.

Personally since crime of the time the cops have to handle it not a major problem in my city I can’t blame them for not getting too excited about staying awake all night. And to be honest I’m not sure the last time we had a fire in the middle of the night, so I don’t think I’m surprised the don’t hang around the phones that much.

I guess about the only I don’t like is that the bars can’t serve alcohol passed a certain time. It is such a pain having to leave at a given time and then go in search of some place we can continue a party that isn’t technically a bar with a liquor license. But I do manage.

I have toyed with the notion of wondering if we would improve the appeal or our city with more options that stayed open all night. Maybe a few donut stores or convenience stores might be a good idea. We only have one convenience store that does stay open all night. And even they close on the weekends at a given time. So if you get the munchies in the middle of the night and it is the weekend you’re in big trouble in my city.

The same pretty much holds true for the gas stations. I think since everyone knows it they normally either are sure they fill up before the stations close or they go out other highway beyond the city limits where there are a couple of stations that stay open all night.

Overall I’m happy with the arrangement in terms of not having that much open all night. After all in Mediocrity too many of my citizens are so prone to dullness and being boring they don’t even enjoy things during the middle of the day. So for their sakes it is just so much easy to not have to face that fact by having most things close.

And on those rare occasions when somebody visits a relative in town and happens to complain about the lack of night life, well if I hear about I just smile. They really don’t know how much better off we are without any reminders that bland is an essential quality to dwell in a city where dull is a way of life.