URBAN SOPHISICATION?
On Sunday, NPR did a piece on something called The Mob Project. Basically, someone in New York city decides to organize these things. Someone sends out an email saying "Meet here at this time" and instructing recipients to forward it to their friends who live in the city. (Salon.com has a more elegant explanation)

Then they meet at the pre-arranged place and... that's it. They just hang around for a few minutes and then leave. No really! That's it. It's like some sociological experiment or performance art or whatever euphemism they attach to pretend it's high-minded when it's really just an act of self-indulgence for people with, apparently, nothing better to do.

I used to think I was missing out on lots of vibrancy and excitement by not living in a big city. If this is one of the highlights of urban life, the height of metropolitan sophistication, I'm content here in my little 14,000-person town in "the boonies" (as the NYCers would probably describe it). And city-denizens say WE're boring?