YOUR 15 MINUTES: Hotel Wal-Mart

For Spring Break this year, 20-year old Drake University sophomore, Skyler Bartels, decided he didn’t want to go to the beach like the rest of the world - he headed to Wal-Mart. Yes, you read that right. He went to Wal-Mart for spring break. His so-called brilliant plan was to spend a week in a 24 hour Wal-Mart to test his survival skills. Wow, this kid real Davey Crockett, isn't he? I can already tell you a Wal-Mart has anything you need to live for a week. Why don’t you try, say, the wilderness? His college advisory thought it was a great idea. What Skyler really needed was to have me advise him. I’d slap the shit out of him and hand him a ticket to South Beach.

He made it 41 hours in the Iowa Wal-Mart spending his time checking out shoppers, reading magazines, watching movies on the DVD displays and playing video games. He ate at the in-store Subway and took naps in the bathroom. I wouldn’t even piss in a Wal-Mart bathroom less than “nap” in one. Employees eventually noticed him and since he was already hallucinating from lack of sleep, he decided to go home before he was thrown out. Of course now he’s going to be famous – he’s talked with a book agent, been contacted by New Line Cinema about a movie concept and did a radio interview with National Public Radio. [source]