Google Naps

I've always loved this idea but still haven't thought up a way to do it right. There are just too many things that could go wrong. So I'm going to give it to you raw, just flat out say it and work out all the details when the smoke clears.

Establishments where you can rent nap space.

Did that just blow your mind? I guess not. It may already exists. But wouldn't it be nice, you're on your lunch break in that terrible business park you despise, you've eaten your toasted focaccia bread fast food sandwich and you're a might bit sleepy. What you gonna do? You gonna lean that driving seat back and get catch a couple of seconds of uncomfortable shut eye? Sure you are. But with the advent of Napping Parlors you wouldn't have to.

Basic idea is that you pay for a discrete amount of nap time and get a clean private room and you sleep for exactly as long as you have paid / have time for / can. And the place is totally decked out for napping with complete light level control, the ability to purchase and consume milk and cookies or whatever you'd like before nap time. Or you could rent a sleeper mask. Or anything other sort of thing that aids in the napping. And of course the friendly staff is there to make sure you don't oversleep your welcome.

So the elephant in the room, the obvious problems. Obviously there is already another type of hotel that sells rooms by the hour or less. And obviously we want to avoid all sorts of associations with houses of ill repute. Clearly, I think, there has to be a one person per room rule. You just can't have things go bad on that front, could ruin your whole rep. Of course people could do creepy stuff in a room alone as well. So I imagine there are various options for solving that too. You could go the "as long as it isn't going to affect the next guest" then it is okay by us route. Which just means that you'd have to have a serious cleaning policy. Obviously that would be pretty necessary anyways, certainly need to always be brand new sheets. That'd be part of the appeal. I would prefer, however, that nothing creepy happen at all in the place. Possible solutions include closed circuit video. A bit scary the idea that someone sees you sleep, but a trained Sleep Guard (or, Guardian of Sleep, trademark pending) would be a kind respectable person who was simply there to secure the area, not to creepily leer at you. Also since these are just brief naps people probably don't have to strip down or anything. And we certainly could provide changing rooms sans cameras if they did want to.

Anyways, if you could build a company image that was safe, clean and respectable enough this idea would sell like hotcakes with heroin syrup. I mean, who doesn't want a siesta in their afternoon. And as the title suggests, maybe the best place to Beta test this brilliant idea of mine would be Google itself. They love their employees. They feed them gigantic lunches that would put a horse to sleep. Why not give their employees a place to nap off a bit of lunch? All of Google's kindness is just to keep you on site for longer hours anyways. A person could wake up from their super restful nap and get right back to work unawares that they are simply feeding the ever gnashing maw of capitalism.

Alternatively you could quit your job and find one that allows you to take your very own siesta. I guess that's an idea too. And probably a better one, but whatevs.