WHAT IF POKEMEN WERE REAL!!!!!! Grown-up Edition

[Kosheh]

All right I'm pretty sure I got deja vu posting this thread, but lemme start by saying it's not WHAT POKEMAN YOU WOULD OWN!!, we are far past 12 and this actually makes one of the greatest geek conversations ever

I was at dinner with some of my friends yesterday, and we were talking about Pokemon for a bit. I found out someone at the table was a huge Pokemon fan, and we started talking about HM slaves, and then his friend mentioned "Mareep would make a good pillow" to which I geeked out and said "he's made of wool and he's an electric type. even if you did relax on him you'd get static shocked like every time you laid down on him". And then it happened.
For the next two hours we revisited the question we all asked our friends as children, "What if Pokemon were real?" The results were just plain awesome - really, they were.

Now, as I said this isn't what Pokemon YOU would own - but think about like Magmar or Drifloom or Rotom - what purpose would they have in the real world?

Our conversation got really awesome; as every time you'd go to the gym you'd just see bodybuilders pump iron with Machamps while their kids took karate lessons with Machops. Eevees would serve as general therapeutic Pokemon along with Sunkern and all the other "useless" Pokemon. Baby Pokemon would be childhood friends that grew along with Pokemon-centric families. Downtown Newburgh (a local city and third highest crime rate per town population in the US) would just be fucking hell, Houndooms taking the place of Rottweilers, people betting on underground Pokemon deathmatches, and pimps owning Ambipoms that would quadruple-slap a bitch with its two hand-tails.

However, we were stuck on Magmar and Electabuzz...we really couldn't find any use for them besides warfare Pokemon (which itself was an awesome subconvo with Alakazam military strategists, dictators with Hypno and Electivires supplying as infantry/backup battery power)
Landscaping Pokemon were kind of tough too; what kind of Pokemon do hard labor really, besides Machoke?

But yeah - simply put, aside from battling Pokemon with your friends...hmm
Okay, look at your current job. What kind of Pokemon do you think would be helping you at your job? On your routine stops during the day, what Pokemon would you expect to see directing traffic? Hanging out at the coffee shop? Helping you socially network?

No seriously - this was an awesome conversation my friends and I had and it's like, the ultimate icebreaker. I'm sure you'd make friends instantly at anime conventions with it.

But yeah! What's your input? :E