Someone should start a chain of standalone concierge services.
They would be in little buildings, like you sometimes see pizza places in. There would be some people in full business dress behind a counter, and a couple of fancy seats. Some coffee. It would be like a rental car office except not terrible. It would be comfortable, welcoming. There would be interesting species of living plants that the concierges could teach you about, if you liked.
People could come in and make requests, which there will be charges for, or they can opt to buy a membership, which comes with a lovely little plastic or perhaps metal card and lets you skip lines and receive help for free.
The concierges would help you with anything. Many of their services are things that the internet, and therefore people's phones, can now do: finding a coffee shop, getting directions, looking up information. But they would still happily perform those tasks and many others that the internet can't: knowing secrets about the places they occupy, finding you a free bathroom or parking space, introducing you to a helpful stranger, discussing the finer points of anything you desire.
The concierges would have to be well read and highly educated and polite and have a lot of connections. They would have to know their way around and how to live in a place and who to call for any very specific matter that arises. But those people are out there. They're looking for jobs.
5.31.2012
5.11.2012
Summer job.
Buy an ice cream truck. Paint it more fun.
Sell the usual scooby-doo with gumball eyes and good humor bars (toasted almond, please), but also sell some alcohol-slushies and frozen jello shots and similar. Go around to college campuses and outside clubs on summer nights while lines of people are waiting to get in.
Also, instead of the entertainer, play electronic-bell midi versions of Biggie tracks.
On a separate note, if you need a commercial for some kind of refreshing thing, use that imagery of the ice cream truck turning a queue outside a club into a party in the street.
Sell the usual scooby-doo with gumball eyes and good humor bars (toasted almond, please), but also sell some alcohol-slushies and frozen jello shots and similar. Go around to college campuses and outside clubs on summer nights while lines of people are waiting to get in.
Also, instead of the entertainer, play electronic-bell midi versions of Biggie tracks.
On a separate note, if you need a commercial for some kind of refreshing thing, use that imagery of the ice cream truck turning a queue outside a club into a party in the street.
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