need a metaphor about waiting for an interesting forum to appear

Do you have any ideas?

A homeless person searching for his next meal in a heap of garbage.

The vain hope that somebody will actually say something interesting in the junior high cafeteria.

@MrPushwood said in #3:
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Remaining on the junior high school scene,

The assistant principal is perturbed after five minutes of asking the school assembly to get quiet for morning announcements.

Sitting on a log waiting for a friendly rattlesnake to slither by

@Dukedog said in #5:
> Sitting on a log waiting for a friendly rattlesnake to slither by

No kidding, a friendly snake slithered by my at the park this week.

Withdrawal