Friday open thread: activities in incongruous places

[dolorosa_12]

Tonight I'm going out to the next iteration of the silent disco (80s/90s/2000s music — the cheesiest you can imagine), which as always is taking place in the cathedral. There's always a weird moment of disorientation when you enter the cavernous space of this ancient medieval cathedral ... and it's full of dancing people of all ages, dressed in lurid fluoro colours, stage lighting, and DJs.

So my prompt for this week's open thread is:

What examples of activities taking place in wildly incongruous spaces have you encountered?

Comments

[troisoiseaux]

What examples of activities taking place in wildly incongruous spaces have you encountered?

I saw an original rock musical adaptation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita in the basement of a church, which felt like an odd choice until it got to the story-within-a-story(-within-a-story) about Jesus and Pontius Pilate halfway through and I was like, ah, this makes more sense now.

[lirazel]

What a good question!!!! So looking forward to people's answers!

I will spend the rest of the day pondering this but for now: I love seeing Old Order Amish people at the gas station. There was this gas station I used to stop at in the middle of nowhere halfway between Nashville and Louisville (cheapest gas on I-65!) and it was very near an Amish community, and they'd pull up in their buggies and go in and fill their Igloo coolers with ice and I just found it so charming. It was always dads with their little sons and there is nothing cuter than kids in Amish garb.