People with summer homes are reluctant to go back into the city come Monday.

It's hard to find a nice, affordable apartment in the West Village.

A writer can find something soulful and authentic about choosing to drink in a semi-hostile dive bar.

Smokers are reluctant to quit smoking, even when nagged to quit smoking.

Extra credit goes to ersatz danger slut and metafabricator Alan Feuer for turning his disgust with the greenmarket assignment into an assignment-editor-baiting passive-aggressive lead:

It may be that, aside from money, traffic, team sports, sex, real estate, the subway, the weather, politics and how lame Los Angeles can be, the average New Yorker's favorite topic of discussion is food. Here, then, is a food story - mainly about fruits and vegetables.

On reinspection, the Times says, the facts--a name and an age--check out, though Feuer did get another name wrong in the piece. That's consistent with the Times' reaction when the Observer first asked about the contents of Feuer's memoir: reporter Alan Feuer can be trusted; it's the memoirist Alan Feuer (or his alter ego, "T.R."), who embellishes stuff.