Things to do when you live in a boring "city"...

[sweetiedarlinmia]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 2:26pm

Ok you creative, inventive, and might I add hilarious folks, I'm looking for ideas. I am cursed to live in an absolutely BORING town with about as much culture and excitement as a defrosting freezer and am looking for ways to pass the time till my next voyage into the real world (or New York as it's normally called). I welcome any ideas or suggestions!

[Clarinetbiter135]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 2:31pm

Cow tipping!

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 2:35pm

Make toothbrush bracelets!! It's a toothbrush, and a bracelet! Like God's gift to man.

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 3:15pm

That's one I haven't heard.

I, too, live in Dullsville USA. It's been a long summer. I think we need a Suburbian Support Group thread, sweetie.

[midtowngym]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 3:27pm

Move.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 3:32pm

I too live in a small town with nothing to do (and populated with redknecks I might add). What did I do? Join bww.com.........I have no life.

[midtowngym]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 3:32pm

Move!

Posted: 7/21/04 at 3:59pm

Even the smallest of towns have libraries - the windows to the world.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:04pm

i could not live in a small town. On roadtrips when we take pit-stops, i always wonder what its like...but never want to experience. haha no offense to anyone who lives in these sorta towns. but, i too live in a smallish suburb of chicago...but we have great malls and stuff. haha I'll join you Clarinetbiter135 in cow tipping!!

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:10pm

I don't live here by choice, I assure you, midtowngym. I guess it's not as bad as it could be, I'm not in some backwoods hick town, but the Chicago tour doesn't come here for another month and I've read everything in the library (everything I'm intrested in). The malls (and we have plenty) have lost their fun. BLEHHH. SOOO BORED.

[Ruffian]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:12pm

Is it time to learn a foreign language? Thats not only interesting, but can keep you busy

[Delphine]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:13pm

Insomniak is right. We NEED a Suburbia Support Group. BWW's SSG. Shall we? Updated On: 7/21/04 at 04:13 PM

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:20pm

I just created our Suburbian Support Group thread :) Go post!

[Ruffian]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:21pm

Oh thats funny

Should we New Yorkers not venture there, but rather send our sympathies via other threads?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:23pm

THOUROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE is pretty easy to stage with your locals.

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:28pm

Anyone is welcome, but beware, there will be griping :) That's the idea. Updated On: 7/21/04 at 04:28 PM

[midtowngym]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:31pm

I do relate to all you bored suburbanites. Having been born and raised in New York City, I get SO bored going to theatre festivals, new restaurants, foreign films and avant-garde music performances. And then the plethora of museums-Whitney, Guggenheim, Frick-who can keep the names straight? If I go to just ONE more art gallery opening, i'll scream!

[junglered]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:31pm

Just don't invest in a pool table...then you'll have Trouble.

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:32pm

But jungle, what if I love libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime?

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:34pm

You'll be dragged into the arms of a jungle animal instinct, MASSTERYIA!

Midtown, you don't know boring until you've lived here.
Updated On: 7/21/04 at 04:34 PM

[junglered]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:35pm

Shameless music!

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:42pm

Thank god I'm not in Ioway.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:53pm

Meijer (or whatever local supermarket you frequent) is great.
24 hours.

Buying Red Bull and riding the Penny Ponies by the entrance is a good way to kill an hour.
Especially when you get to the level of hyper that you attempt to "race" the ponies.
Works best around 3 am.


Once, my friend Mary kidnapped 4 of our friends.
We drove them to Meijer, gave them each $2, and instructed them to buy us presents.
When they returned, we graded their gifts in assinine categories.
(Edible? 2 points. Orange? 4 points. Found in the checkout lane? Subract 2 points.)
And we gave the winner a t-shirt from our dorm that said:
"Who's Your Monkey?"
That was the best day ever.
I got some really cool presents out of it, too.
I still have the sign that says "DANGEROUS: NO TRESPASSING"

[midtowngym]

Posted: 7/21/04 at 4:55pm

That was lovely, FF. Tell me another bedtime story. I'm almost asleep now...

Posted: 7/21/04 at 5:04pm

Oh insomniak, the idle message board is the devil's playground.