Sadly, I had to tell the employees of the coffee shop what the SSID, authentication, and encryption for their own network was, because the company that set it up for them left scads of pre-printed "helpful instructions for registering your account!" using Internet Explorer to get through the web proxy... but, uh... forgot about that niggling little actually connect to the network part of it that kinda has to come before "just opening up your web browser."
I might be a horrid yuppiedorkbeast, but I'm still, obviously, in South Carolina.
Sigh.