Remember 24-hour restaurants and the weekend "bar rush" from late evening till the early A.M.?

When I was hitchhiking around the country back in the 1980s I'd be at a Waffle House or Denny's late at night, especially on a Friday or Saturday, and one crowd after another would stroll on in, "flooding" the place and practically "taking over" the establishment with their obnoxious personalities and loud mouths.

If the establishment wasn't very friendly they'd often tell me I "had to leave" in order to make room for these fraternal "butt fucker" crowds.  Which makes sense----who do the managers and servers stand to make the most money off of, some lone vagrant nursing a cup of coffee for two hours or a bunch of affluent drunks with wallets full of bills or multiple credit cards, coupled with a guarantee of huge tips galore?

And the folks in these crowds would always order something to eat, never be able to finish their food, throw up half of their late-night meal in the parking lot, but still they dutifully paid their tab just the same.

And the police would always be "taking their break" at the same time in that establishment as well, no doubt observing who was taking off staggering and stumbling out to their car and calling in the description of that person's vehicle to a colleague waiting up the road.

These days I don't think any place stays open past 10:00 or 11:00 P.M..  Anymore, even the bars themselves close early.  The concept of the "all night cafe", "24-hour restaurant", and "24-hour convenience store" has become quite an anachronism overnight.

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