In 2001 I was having the monthly luncheon with my elderly, rich female friends. Three or four of them had lapsed into a conversation about some popular restaurants in their area, which would be somewhere within five miles of Beverly Hills, on the west side of Los Angeles. To my dismay, they were sharing the news about the latest popular (and probably expensive) restaurant items.
After several exchanges about this or that new restaurant, one of them gushed, "I hear those new Wraps, or is it 'sandwich wraps'? are popular."
These were intelligent, informed women, women I felt so much affinity with that I could be friends with them for the last twenty years. But gushing over the latest restaurant fashions? Please Joe, say it ain't so!
I muttered, "I think this country has too much money," a point immediately agreed upon by a couple of other women there. I'd say I was vindicated but one of the women agreeing with me was one of the rudest, most tactless women you could ever meet.
Shame on me, I guess.
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