How rage room happy hours became all the rage

Corrie Aune for BI

For her 35th birthday, Deja Monet decided she wanted to break something. So on a Tuesday afternoon in March, she and her boyfriend headed to The Ragery, a "rage room" on Manhattan's Lower East Side, grabbed a helmet and a pair of googles, and picked up a sledgehammer.

What was so stressful about Monet's life that she'd spend the next half hour taking aim at stacks of plates, an old computer monitor, and a keyboard?

"Work," Monet said, without missing a beat.