Join the Dull Men's Club?!

Finally, a meeting of the (mundane) minds. Just don't get too excited.

- BY Cathy Free FROM THE WASHINGTON POST

Grover Click was sitting at a bar with three friends in New York City when it occurred to him that he and his pals were all pretty boring.

The men belonged to an athletic club, and they were looking at a magazine that showed their contemporaries involved in activities such as fencing, judo, boxing and wrestling. One of them blurted out, “Hey, we don’t do any of these things—we’re kind of dull,” recalls Click, now 86. “I had to agree.”

On that afternoon in 1988, the Dull Men’s Club, or DMC, was born.

“I suggested that we needed a club for dull men, and we got it started as a joke,” Click says.

They came up with activities they could participate in even if they did not have any particular athletic, artistic or technical abilities.

“We'd race elevators at Macy’s to see which one was fastest, and we’d have conversations about tire pressures,” Click says.

Soon, they had a room at the club where they'd meet. “It had 17 chairs—enough for 17 members,” he says.

When someone in the group suggested that they invite women to join them, most of the members shot down the idea.

“They weren't as dull as we were,” Click says, recalling the consensus of the group.

Almost four decades later, much has changed. The Dull Men’s Club is now a comfort zone for self-described dull men—and women!—worldwide. More than 1.8 million DMC members post about their latest boring pursuits on the group’s Facebook page and submit ideas for the Dull Men’s Club website.

On the group's Facebook page, it's rare to find much that's exciting or stimulating.