If you're into Internet smartassery, you've probably encountered various blogs and tweets mocking the heinous adult pre-school that has opened its doors in Brooklyn. For those of you who haven't stumbled across the gem, you need to know that there is now a pre-school for adults in New York's hippest borough that gives grown-ass folk a safe space to finger paint, play show-and-tell, take naps, and be generally insufferable. If you're looking for a combination of laughter and shaking your damn head, check out their website and/or this Cosmo piece written by one of the "students." Internet hero Nick Mullen attempted to crowdfund money to justify his taking a shit there (not sure what the money was for exactly).
But he was sadly denied.
While this adult pre-school has drawn the ire of the Internet this week, it is by no means the only ridiculous business operating in Brooklyn. Silicon Valley is a hub for tech. Lower Manhattan has long been the home of finance. Brooklyn is the place where quirk and whimsy masquerade as a business model, conspiring to make even the most open-minded bohemians among us gag on the tweeness of it all. Here are The Most Ridiculous Businesses Currently Operating in Brooklyn.