Question of the Day:

Why are there so many people that find a night hotspot so cool that they’ll sit and wait in line for an hour while it doesn’t move because the only people that can actually get in are people who know people?

A friend was in town last night, and we started out at OM in Harvard Square, where he knew a few people so we got a nice line up of desserts on our table.  That was a nice little perk.  Well, then we decided to try and go to Alibi at the Liberty Hotel.  We get there, and the line wasn’t that long, so we stood there until I realized we hadn’t moved in 20 minutes, yet people were flying by us around the line.  Sure, it happens all the time, but it doesn’t mean I have to deal with it, like it, or stay there.  I truly believe that there couldn’t be a place so good that warrants a completely unmoving line, with the bouncers not giving a hoot about the people shivering, and the people shivering actually letting others pass them without somehow feeling demeaned, like a cattle horse waiting for food (was that extreme?).

Not for me.  I won’t pass judgment on the people who do choose to stand in those lines (I hope they’re getting some sort of fulfillment out of it!), just don’t ask me to.