When The City Sleeps

Enjoying my coffee at 4 in the morning while the rest of the world sleeps!

Creepy Castles

Andre Govia via Flickr

Martijn van Schie via Flickr

Who wouldn't want to go visit a castle? Despite the romanticized view of castle life portrayed on TV castle life wasn't all that comfortable. All that floor space with no running water and electricity made castle life rather difficult and dreary. Perhaps that's why all ancient castles are filled with the ghosts of misery, treachery, deceit, murder, and every negative human act imagineable. Yahoo compiled a slide show of creepy, abandoned castles that make for a nice virtual trip back into time.

Dead In the Dead of Night

Driving down a major street in SW Houston at 2 in the morning. Normally traffic on this street is heavy. I look to the left and see this funeral home. I've driven this route hundreds of times and I've never noticed this place. The hearse reminded me of the Tall Man in the Phantasm movies. This place which is the center of many sad tales of death and grief sitting dead in the dead of night.

Sign of the Apocalypse

A man in Seattle, WA, shared this picture with Coast to Coast AM. A very ingenious way of advertising. Just for that I wish I could make it up to Seattle to eat at this cafe!

Dirty Restrooms

Working nights one has a limited amount of facilities available to them. Perhaps the most crucial are restrooms. When you gotta go you gotta go however most likely you want a clean restroom to use. Problem is at 2am most clerks could really care less how their facilities look. They are usually bored, sleepy, unmotivated yet the last thing they want to do is clean a restroom. I feel sorry for ladies on the night shift that require a clean restroom. We men don't have to touch anything!

Late Night Grocery Shopping

I don't know anyone that enjoys grocery shopping. You have to jump in the car, maybe fight traffic, and then fight the crowds depending on when you go. However ask these people why don't they do their grocery shopping later at night and more often than not they will look at you like you're crazy (and if you grocery shop late at night you just maybe). The least appealing aspect is you spend more money than you intended to. I found myself having to grocery shop later in the night. I really didn't want to but when faced with the choice of going at night or Saturday afternoon I rushed out the door. As expected there were only a handful of people in the store shopping as well. Aside from a couple of families everyone else was by themself, had a blank expression on their faces that seemed to say they live their lives contrary to the normal swing as well and are going through the motions. That's about how I felt running from aisle to aisle grabbing stuff I needed, and stuff I thought I needed thus running up my bill. Perhaps that's just how I view it. Who knows why the other sappy looking people were shopping with me.

Vacant Apartment

This apartment has been vacant for some time. However in this complex there is a problem with homeless people breaking into these empty apartments and illegally taking up residence. Some of the more creative ones manage to break into the breaker boxes and get free electricity. They live comfortably until someone catches them. Imagine living here rent free but wondering when someone will notice.