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Almost posted this in Travel or even Architecture but, eh, let me start here.
I have a benign mini-obsession.
I have an attraction to driving and sometimes even walking through office/business parks during off hours.
They're oddly peaceful outside of work hours.
I like discovering the little businesses I never knew about.
Although architecturally they are utterly forgettable, there's something about the low-slung anonymous structures peppered with little public areas that's appealing.
When there's a huge expanse of emptiness and then I come upon ONE little business that seems to have people working it's even more intriguing.
I'm kinda nuts, right?
If it is a newer big corporate park they often are very nicely landscaped with lots of rolling hills, ponds, trees, and flowerbeds. They look a lot more "natural" when the parking lots are empty. Lots of times they even have nicely curving sidewalks between buildings or an overall loop that can be nice for early morning or evening walks if you're in the area.
I like doing something like this too--
I don't go out of my way to find them but often when I do dog agility events (one of my hobbies) they are in industrial/office type areas and it's interesting to walk around and see all the businesses and what not on a closed down weekend. For instance I go to one place by a major airport and pass all of the places making the airlines foods and try to decipher by smell what the items are LOL
Maybe it's just the solitude you're attracted to elhelmete? I can totally relate to that. I love to ride my bike after midnight and into the wee hours of the morning. I remember one ride last summer where I didn't see a car or another living thing for about an hour. I loved it. I also love being in the woods alone at night. I walked through some up in Wisconsin with a full moon so bright it looked like daylight. It was incredibly beautiful, and peaceful. I needed to detox because I was with my in-laws all day It's also a real treat to go to the movies and having the whole theater to yourself. No cells phones, no people talking. Heaven. Honestly, I don't think you're crazy. I totally understand.
Almost posted this in Travel or even Architecture but, eh, let me start here.
I have a benign mini-obsession.
I have an attraction to driving and sometimes even walking through office/business parks during off hours.
They're oddly peaceful outside of work hours.
I like discovering the little businesses I never knew about.
Although architecturally they are utterly forgettable, there's something about the low-slung anonymous structures peppered with little public areas that's appealing.
When there's a huge expanse of emptiness and then I come upon ONE little business that seems to have people working it's even more intriguing.
Almost posted this in Travel or even Architecture but, eh, let me start here.
I have a benign mini-obsession.
I have an attraction to driving and sometimes even walking through office/business parks during off hours.
They're oddly peaceful outside of work hours.
I like discovering the little businesses I never knew about.
Although architecturally they are utterly forgettable, there's something about the low-slung anonymous structures peppered with little public areas that's appealing.
When there's a huge expanse of emptiness and then I come upon ONE little business that seems to have people working it's even more intriguing.
I'm kinda nuts, right?
Are we talking clothes or unclothed, because that is kinda the dividing line between nuts and not nuts. No pun intended.
Almost posted this in Travel or even Architecture but, eh, let me start here.
I have a benign mini-obsession.
I have an attraction to driving and sometimes even walking through office/business parks during off hours.
They're oddly peaceful outside of work hours.
I like discovering the little businesses I never knew about.
Although architecturally they are utterly forgettable, there's something about the low-slung anonymous structures peppered with little public areas that's appealing.
When there's a huge expanse of emptiness and then I come upon ONE little business that seems to have people working it's even more intriguing.
I'm kinda nuts, right?
Wrong about nuts, and wrong about "mini-obsession." I'd call it an "interest." But if you like, call it an obsession.
I sometimes call it the "gezinta-gezouta" law: Whatever goes in must come out. And worse, everything you eat turns to p*** and s***. "I live, therefore I crap."
Actually defecation in the outdoors is much more satisfying than modern plumbing, because bent over squatting puts extra pressure on your colon and expels ... feces ... with much greater effect than sitting on your porcelain throne. -- Just remember, dig a hole, bury it when you are done, and pack the used TP out. -- It makes sense. How much different is human scat than coyote scat or cattle scat, except in size and texture?
Good to be a man when it's #1!
I used to go camping a lot in Colorado. One of my "rituals" was when it was dark, I would pee in the middle of the road (I am a girl.) Not sure why I got such a kick out of it, but I totally did.
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It's also a real treat to go to the movies and having the whole theater to yourself. No cells phones, no people talking. Heaven. Honestly, I don't think you're crazy. I totally understand.
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