Maennergarten

**Rtificial** · 12 Oct 2003, 08:06 PM

Taken from AOL news

BERLIN (Oct. 7) - German women fed up with their partners' grumbling on weekend shopping trips can now dump them at a special kindergarten for men offering beer and entertainment.

"The women are issued a receipt for their partners when they hand them in and can pick them up again when they return it to us later," Alexander Stein, manager of the 'Nox Bar' in the northern city of Hamburg told Reuters on Tuesday.

The men are given a name badge on arrival and for 10 euros ($11.80) they get two beers, a hot meal, televised football and games.

Stein said the idea for the Saturday afternoon men's creche, or "Maennergarten," came from a female customer who thought it would be a good way of getting shot of her husband so she could shop in peace.

"She found it all too stressful and thought this might be the solution. Both were very happy with the way it turned out.

"Last week the men had a remote control car to play with. Next week there's going to be a mini racetrack," said Stein.

They are also offering a drilling workshop.

"It beats sitting around in shoe shops, that's for sure," one man told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

Man, I want one...with margarritas tho!

**Josh** · 12 Oct 2003, 08:13 PM

That is awesome.

**Captain Vegetable** · 12 Oct 2003, 08:45 PM

Wow. Icepick is impressed.

As am I. That's the single best idea I've ever heard, and I don't even drink.

**Lordmrw** · 12 Oct 2003, 10:23 PM

you ask me, rather than paying the money for all that, just stay home. jesus fuck, what's so hard about that?

**Rumpy** · 12 Oct 2003, 11:27 PM

Good idea. Wish I thought of that.

**Gohron** · 13 Oct 2003, 12:08 AM

Throw in some computers with Cable connections and I'm down.

**Grave** · 13 Oct 2003, 01:38 AM

This is the greatest goddamn idea.

Ever.

**Dripdry** · 13 Oct 2003, 01:49 AM

I'll have to go with Lord on this... although I suppose if there are other errands to run, and you're doing it together, and you can't convince her to keep her shopping time down to a few shops at a time, this place would be great!

Seems like a neat place to meet people, too, to bitch about how one's woman shops too much