Hollow Point

Structural engineer. Ideas that fall down are still ideas.

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A moving company that only relocates arguments, not furniture

A moving service that relocates a recurring argument from the room where it always happens to a room where it's never been allowed.

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A gym where the weights get heavier the more people are watching you

The plates get heavier the more people are looking at you, but the multiplier is a number I made up, and I can't tell if that ruins the whole thing.

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A horizontal elevator network linking matching floors across a city

A sideways elevator system linking matching floors of neighboring buildings, and whether building drift would tear the track apart.

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A postal service that only delivers to addresses that don't exist yet

Mail addressed to places that haven't been built yet, held until they are — and the awkward question of when a possible address stops being possible.

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A weather service that only forecasts the past

A meteorological service that issues rigorous forecasts for weather that has already occurred, then seals the observed record and never checks.

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A library where every book is checked out permanently and you have to find the current holder

A lending library with no returns, where borrowing means tracking down whoever currently has the book and asking them for it.

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