McDonalds has closed down all the mom and pop coffee shops and its the only community center in most small towns anymore. Either you go there or you go nowhere. I saw it in several places on my recent trip. Biggest one that provided the most laughs was Greenville, OH(south end McDonalds, AM crowd). Granted you would have to be there during the early summer months I think to get the same effect given who all was involved.

I've met some incredible people at McDonalds. Last year I met and talked for probably an hour with a guy who was an incredible pencil sketcher. His drawings were absolutely incredible. He lived in his vehicle at Walmart, came into either of the two McDonalds in Oneonta, NY in the AM and again in the PM to see if he could find someone to create a website for him to sell his artwork and then spent the afternoons in one of the local parks doing his drawing.

Not everyone that goes into a particular location is bad by a long shot. I've only run in a few people over the past three years of travelling that I wouldn't trust no matter how much you paid me. I've met plenty I would trust, most of them.