Why it's good to be a shlub in the boonies

1. I don't have to worry about ever seeing any of my neighbors in the $550 rubber pants the Olsen twins are selling at Louis, Boston (which I learned about from a photo that accompanied the dead-tree version of Hayley Kaufman's 100% guaranteed insight-free suck up in yesterday's Globe).

2. I don't have to worry about somebody killing me and gouging out my eyeball just to get into some overpriced Back Bay health club with an iris scanner.

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Remember that episode of

Remember that episode of Daria, when Daria and Trent are driving to the concert?

Trent: (reading sign) If you lived here, you'd be home by now.

Daria: Yeah, and bored out of my mind!

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