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I recommend the Missouri Institute of Natural Science. It's a great little museum with lots of fossils and minerals to look at. There's even dinosaur bones (from Wyoming, not Missouri) that are super cool.

Edited to add: it's also a free museum, so there is no admission.

Drink.

Seconded

Sit inside and cry is my go to

Well, rec MJ is a thing now. You could pick you up a little fun flower.

Art museum, Wonders of Wildlife, History Museum, flea marketing are a few that come to mind.

Wonders of wildlife, fantastic caverns, go for a drive, Springfield nature conservation center.

You could visit the art museum. The Library Center usually has stuff going on. Catch a movie. See Avatar - that's almost four whole hours indoors with some tasty popcorn.

Or, do one of my favorite things and play Mall Walker Bingo. Make a little bingo card and fill it with things like: Lady Who Has Way Too Many Kids, Old Lady Mall Walking Group, Dude Holding His Wife's Purse, Clandestine Job Interview, Couple Holding Hands, Awkward Dad at Hot Topic, Embarrassed Guy at Victoria's Secret, Drug User Nodding Off. It's fun!

Weed is legal go get some!

Flea marketing is good round here

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I second that one

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Movie. A man called Otto

Edit. The movie run time is two hours and it could have been longer and I wouldn’t have noticed.

I just saw that movies are only $7 at Alamo Drafthouse on Tuesdays.

u can come work my job for me lmfao

If you wanna smoke I will invite you over.

Nap

Owners of Fantastic Caverns are terrible people. Boycott that place.

Source: worked there for 8 months

Edit: lmao who downvoted me? The Campbell family members are filled with narcissism and hatred.

Make glass art: https://www.creativeescapeglass.com/. The owners are very friendly and helpful!

Noooo let's cry together!?

I would definitely like more details on this one

They refuse to pay overtime by citing “exemption” because all employees are classified as part-time and seasonal, which is just a huge labor law violation.

If you take off more than 4 days in a row between March and October then you are automatically fired, even if all shifts are covered and you are not needed. I had a coworker who had to go out of state for a funeral and they fired them because they couldn’t get a flight back soon enough.

They say that they are pro conservation, but have completely destroyed that cave and any potential habit that it would have had.

Make their employees work in flooded and dangerous conditions inside the cave.

The granddaughter of the owners is a manager and is a major bitch and yells at everyone, even if they did nothing wrong.

And also they have never hired a non-white employee ever. I watched many apply and all were rejected because they didn’t fit the “Ozarks” look.

Wow, thanks for the info. I'm somehow not surprised by any of that.

Of course. I’m all for supporting locally owned businesses, but not one’s that treat their employees terribly.

I'm the same way. I used to love stopping at Slice of Pie anytime I was in Rolla until the day I went in and the owner went on a rant in front of his employees and customers about how he shouldn't have to pay minimum wage because he could train a monkey to do their jobs.

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What did you do?

Ooh, I love a flea market. Any particular recommendations?

How cool. I had no idea that was here

Traffic way has like 3 or 4 in a little strip super fun that’s where I’d start, then explore, they’re everywhere!

Wonders of wildlife is maybe worth the price once...

Their "now hiring" sign on 13 says $13.50 starting pay... Lol, no thanks.

They always complained how no one wanted to work.

No, nobody wants to work for you.

I wanna know too

Springfield Leather has a lot of crystals, gems, rocks if you like that stuff! Really beautiful. I like hanging out in coffee shops around here too, can people-watch or work on things, sometimes there’s nice people to talk to. Societea is also nice. Thrift stores. Could go look at The Acoustic Shoppe if you like music, they’re really cool.