Let’s imagine a day where nothing has gone right.
The tractor wouldn’t start, the internet was down, the kids were more ornery than normal and now, on top of everything else, you’ve just found out your curling game and hockey game are booked for the same night.
The first instinct might be to grab a hammer and start smashing everything in sight, but of course you don’t do that. Instead, you respond like an adult, sulking for a while before getting on with life.
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But let’s go back to that first option for a moment. Why didn’t you grab the hammer and start smashing everything in sight? There are the social implications, obviously. What’s the family going to think as you go on a destructive rampage around the shop?
Then there’s the economic ramifications. All that stuff you just wrecked will have to be replaced.
But, you have to admit, it sure would feel good, if only there was a way to do it without breaking the bank and turning into a social pariah.
Well, I don’t know if you’ve been hearing about this, but now there is a way to get out the hammer and avoid the consequences.
They’re called smash therapy rooms, or rage rooms, or anger rooms, and they’re popping up all over the place. They might not have made it yet to Stettler, Alta., Carrot River, Sask., or Altona, Man., but a quick internet search will definitely find them in Calgary, Regina and Winnipeg.
The idea is simple — show up at one of these places and smash the smithereens out of any number of items.
One promotional video featured two young women dressed in coveralls, work gloves and face shields wrecking computer monitors and glass bottles with sledge hammers.
Some folks argue that it’s therapeutic to smash stuff in a controlled environment, offering a healthy alternative to putting your foot through the TV.
Others discount the therapy angle, saying it is simply a way to have some good old-fashioned fun.
From what I can tell, these places provide the stuff that can be obliterated, but some will also allow you to bring your own.
A young woman I know plans to pay a visit to a smash therapy room soon, and she’s really hoping to bring her old computer printer.
And can’t we all relate to that.
