Originally Posted by kane

Sometimes people get so lost in their own world they just can see reality.

There is a show called Bar Rescue where a guy goes around and helps struggling bars (similar to this show just with bars). He went to one bar that was a pirate themed bar. Okay, you give them points for trying to be original, but it hadn't worked. The people that worked there dressed and acted like pirates 24/7. The food and drinks were terrible as was the service. The places was failing. The owner and her husband and daughter had lost everything in this business and were living in her mom's basement.

The guy came in and changed it to something more upscale since it was in a business district and during their tests they got a lot of positive feedback. People thought the new look was great, the new food and drinks were great and said they would not only go there for lunch during work, but for drinks after work or on the weekend.

The night they relaunched the place was packed and the owner was miserable because it was pirate themed, although all the staff was loving it because they were making money from the tips now that they had actual customers.

At the end of the show it said she switched it back to being a pirate bar 2 days after the relaunch and it was back to failing. She was living in such a fantasy world that there was simply no way to convince her otherwise.