Sometimes I Think About My Own Business...

Ever get tired of the daily grind? Think about may be getting your own thing going on? I hang around the Taekwondo school a lot and while some might dream of having their own school, I know that one day I'll be too old for all those kicks and punches or I will jump, bend or squat and rip my trousers and then I will be too embarrassed to keep training up there.


So my idea, and your own business seems to always combine two things, one which you like to do and one thing we usually don't like to do which is work, into one thing. I like to cook, among other hobbies so I think it would be real great to open an Asian Tak-Key-Outee food joint right next to the Taekwondo school.


You used to see a bunch of these things in the French Quarter on Bourbon St. A long narrow room, four tables against one long wall with a counter which you order from and stand there watching a guy (me!) cooking your greasy rat or shrimp on a stick, sticky fried rice and limp over cooked veggies. You know the kind of menu I'm talking about, stuff that tastes real good when you are hungry as heck or real drunk.

Location is everything and I figure with the Asian motif right next to the Taekwondo school coupled with lots of hungry kids finishing a work out business would boom. Of course may be I am a little mean and really want to see the kids in their white karate outfits squeezing sweet and sour sauce out of little plastic packets and getting it all over them.

Other people have had similar ideas and made them work. Here is the Taekwondo school in Evansville, Indiana, I have worked out here before on a previous visit, they are the same association as us. Seems the target market for the business next door is a little different, but you get the drift. You could probably see people getting stuff all over them too.