Rent free… I don’t think so!

Come up with a crazy business idea.

Ann Landers was a famous advice columnist who coined the phrase, “lives in my head rent free.” Originally this phrase referred to a person, place, or thing that I think about often, and I can’t get the thoughts to go away, or move out!

Now in the era of “woke”, social media has transformed the phrase from something that might have been positive and turned the meaning into negative feelings toward another person. Landers said, “hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”

So, I had this great idea, that if someone wants me to live rent free in their head, because they hate my guts… I would just start charging them for the use of my image in their heads. I mean seriously, it’s my image. Like a copyright or a fingerprint, it is unique to me and they can’t just use it for free! I’m going to charge them.

Conversely, those that hate me have indeed occupied a large amount of space in my head over the last ten years. And essentially they have lived “rent free” in my head as I often pondered why they treated me in such horrible ways. So, in keeping with my “charge rent” idea, to rehabilitate my own thinking process, when their actions come popping back up like a mole in my yard, I would just send them a bill.

Maybe it would be based on amount of time spent thinking about all the angst they have caused me. Like “reparations” of a sort. If I spent 30 minutes on Tuesdays with these images, conversations, or hurtful ideas in my head, I would send the person a bill for $50. I think $100 an hour for how they used to live rent free is a pretty good deal.

Of course, I do realize this is a “crazy business idea,” but not many of my crazy business ideas have worked in the past either. Some of them not because the ideas were crazy, but because I was crazy not to pursue them. I will give you one example.

I was starting to bald before I was 25 years old. Genetic patterns and all that. But I had this crazy idea back in the early 80’s to create a visor cap with hair attached, so a guy wouldn’t look bald. Everyone had a big laugh at my expense, which was fun. But look at what I found on Amazon today…