An Emergency On Your Part

Further thoughts on the psychology of suburbanites towards cities

I’ll start with a semi-tangent: I hate the phrase “a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.” It’s kind of like, yeah, I know, I know, but you don’t have to tell me. It’s like the stuffy old colleague I had once who got a drink spilled on him by a waitress and then later in the meal, when asked how the drink was, remarked…