Posted on 03/04/2010 5:19:40 AM PST by mattstat
We meet four Ladies Who Lunch in an Upper West Side New York bistro.
“Martha!” cooed Susan.
“Susan!” cooed Martha. “Janet and Catherine late as usual, I see.”
“Never mind them. Have a sip of this exquisite Cheval Blanc.”
Martha drained her glass. “It’s darling. Organic?”
“Of course.”
“Oh, I know where Janet is. She and Robert just returned from the islands. Lots to take care of.” Martha checked her makeup with a small mirror. “This snow isn’t helping, either. My Fendi hardly blocks out the cold!”
Sarah refilled both glasses. “I don’t see how Janet’s busy. Robert has the company jet.”
After drinking, Martha nodded and said, “But when she returned there was some sort of difficulty with customs. They made her stand in line with a non-charter flight from the Dominican Republic! Simply took her hours.”
“Don’t turn around, but here they come. Ah,” Sarah used the glass to hide her lips, “Catherine has another new bauble. Just watch her not show it off.”
“Janet!” cooed Martha.
“Catherine!” cooed Sarah. Janet and Catherine cooed and sat.
Martha signaled for another bottle. As it was being poured, ..
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Fascinating.
Extraordinary level of observation! Brrr.
real carbon neutral dining is eating grass and leaves and drinking dirty lake water.
The Lincoln Park liberals in Chicago are wanna-be Manhattanites. Unlike their New York counterparts, the Chicagoans can’t always afford the big weekend place in the Hamptons, but they share the same level of entitlement. Ironically, the folks in the housing projects like Cabrini-Green have the same attitude except they didn’t work for it.
The well-heeled urbanites are hilarious. One contractor friend gave a young couple a description of his proposed solution that sounded right out of the Three Stooges. All the couple could say was, “How much?”
My friend said, “That was all nonsense; I was just having a little fun.”
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