I was picking up license plates for a new car in Adel, IA and noticed a sign on a building across the street. The sign was for a bar with the prosaic name Hideaway Lounge. It was a bar, i.e., a business where people make a profit off other people’s chemical dependency.
But it was the other business that really caught my eye, a 24 hour crisis center. How ironic that a bar and a crisis center are co-located.
It is an obvious symbiotic relationship but is it mutualism, commensalism or parasitism? An additional irony is the address: 911.
