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The New York Times has a story today about a man who rents himself out to bars and parties as a human carpet:
He took his act professional a few years ago and now mostly appears for
a fee — his standard rate is about $200 a session, plus tips. Human
carpeting is still a fairly wide-open market: Georgio knows of only one
other person in New York doing a similar thing, a guy who calls himself
Kevin Carpet.
It's all his mother's fault, she kept telling him that he always let people walk all over him.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | June 14, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Is he Oriental, perhaps?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 14, 2009 at 12:21 PM
People just walk all over him.
How long before his character ends up on Law & Dorder?
Posted by: oneblankspace | June 14, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Beating the carpet is extra. Stanley Steemer is his swo9rn enemy. I guess it's much better than being a human doormat.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | June 14, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I think he's nuts.
Posted by: nursecindy | June 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM
You have to be pretty rugged to engage in that kind of acdtivity.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 14, 2009 at 12:39 PM
His slogan: "Hey, baby - let's shag!"
Posted by: SW | June 14, 2009 at 12:41 PM
"who calls himself the Human Carpet"
He should'a called himself "the Dork." NTTAWWT...
Posted by: frodolives | June 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Can he see the people standing on him?
Posted by: SW | June 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM
You know he's only doing it to look up the women's skirts, right??
Posted by: Siouxie | June 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM
I bet he couldn't resist saying, “The more people who pile on, the better,” he continued.
I think he's nuts.
Posted by: nursecindy | June 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Probably so, cindy, but he makes it pay.
I'm tempted to say Only in New York but
nutcasesguys like him are probably all over.Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 14, 2009 at 02:51 PM
When you think of sexual fetishes and carpet, that is hardly what comes to mind.
Posted by: Margaritaville | June 14, 2009 at 04:19 PM
Can't you see this guy's Christmas list? Knee kicker, power stretcher, tack strips...
Posted by: frodolives | June 14, 2009 at 05:01 PM
Is he a bare rug?
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | June 14, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Horace, I think we should make him a THROW rug...
Posted by: frodolives | June 14, 2009 at 06:59 PM
"I think he's nuts."
I concur, but the people who pay him to lie on the floor are even bigger nuts.
Posted by: Elon | June 14, 2009 at 07:12 PM
Speaking of odd sexual fetishes, Oprah featured an prostitute who worked at a legal brothel in Nevada. The prostitute said that she had a client who was single, and his coworkers always complained about their nagging wives. Out of curiosity, he took her out to dinner and back to her room at the ranch - and paid her to nag him and NOT have sex with him so he would know what being married was like. She actually got quite a few weird requests where there was no sex involved
Posted by: Merri Lee | June 14, 2009 at 09:27 PM
btw, did anyone else initially read "bars and parties" as "bras and panties?" Just curious...
Posted by: frodolives | June 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Old Joke: Know how to make a carpet moan ? Don't pay it.
( Yeah, I don't get it either. )
Posted by: Clankazoid | June 14, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I wonder if the carpet matches the drapes.
Posted by: BoscoH | June 14, 2009 at 11:41 PM
"...a guy who calls himself Kevin Carpet..."
And then there's the guy called Walter who leans up against the wall. You know -- Walter Wall Carpet..?
Posted by: JonJ | June 15, 2009 at 04:50 AM
"btw, did anyone else initially read "bars and parties" as "bras and panties?"
Yes, and the sad part is I didn't realize it until I read this post.
Posted by: gabbygirl | June 15, 2009 at 01:40 PM
"btw, did anyone else initially read "bars and parties" as "bras and panties?"
Yes, and the sad part is I didn't realize it until I read this post.
Posted by: gabbygirl | June 15, 2009 at 01:40 PM