City life

Online dating isn’t an exclusively urban phenomenon: there are, presumably, plenty of people in need of a fix-up and looking for chicks in the suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas. But only in the city will you find subway billboards advertising online dating sites, and there’s something ruthlessly urban in this Boston sign promising to “delete users unfit to date.” It’s a jungle out there, people: the Sex in the City crowd isn’t afraid to apply the rules of survival of the fittest in the search for a “keeper.”

Neither are city dwellers (at least the ones with indelible markers) shy about correcting others’ grammar-goofs. On the same subway ride into Boston this past Saturday, J and I spotted this bit of grammatical repartee on the window-sill of an MBTA green line car. “Human are stupid” says one vandalizing subway rider. “So is your grammar,” responds the second. On this National Grammar Day, it’s intriguing to realize that in the city, even the Grammar Police are willing to indulge in some corrective graffiti every now and then.

This is my belated contribution to last week’s Photo Friday theme, City Life.

Leslee Says:

Mar 4, 2009 at 6:59 pm

Well, thank God for that! In both cases – unfit daters and bad grammarians. (shudder)

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Lorianne Says:

Mar 4, 2009 at 7:07 pm

Personally, I’m trying to decide which is the more Unfit Dater: a Bad Grammarian, or an obnoxious Correcter of Bad Grammar.

trish Says:

Mar 4, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Hi, Lorianne! Your blog has changed! Gotten even more beautiful and interesting! It’s been ages since I’ve heard from you and I got this thing about you following me on Twitter! I warn you…I’m a very slack twitter user! I’m a fairly slack blogger too these days. That’s what working full time will do to ya…or me, at least. Nice to connect again, though. Hope all is well with you.