1st Rule of Upper East Side Mommy Club: Talk About Upper East Side Mommy Club

[Songbird]

This story is all kinds of fascinating.

Inside the bizarre life of an Upper East Side housewife | New York Post

Just about every piece of it is quote-function worthy ...

... such as "offered group play-date tutorials last year for $400 an hour, complete with a write-up of your child’s social deficits."

Or ...

Really well-written story. I'm sure there's a whole other side of the equation that we didn't hear about in the story but regardless, this'll make a great movie if it hasn't already been made and I can't think of it.

 

[Songbird]

Wondering if the wife of a "super-famous New York comedian" was Seinfeld's.

 

[LongTimeListener]

The author's name is Wednesday.

 

[YankeeFan]

I was shocked this article didn't get posted when it was first published.

So much hilarity.

 

[User 11148]

Having a hard time wrapping my head around the bolded portion of this sentence:

"They moved several years ago, when her youngest son, now 7, was accepted to school there."

That's some ****ed up ****.

 

[Vombatus]

Wow. I now know where the epicenter of the next nuclear blast needs to be.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The part about her kid being born in the wrong month was a fun line. How dare he.

 

[BTExpress]

Sigh. I've tried for seven years to convince my wife that Americans are NOT like this.

****. We are.

 

[poindexter]

Wow. I now know where the epicenter of the next nuclear blast needs to be.

Tough, but fair.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Clams gonna' clam.

 

[User 1019]

What a miserable existence.

 

[BDC99]

W ... T ... F? For a BAG?!

Birkins range in price from $10,500 to $150,000.

 

[User 1019]

I thought the same thing.

 

[Riptide]

W ... T ... F? For a BAG?!

Birkins range in price from $10,500 to $150,000.

Yeah, that's sick. At that level of wealth – the One-Percenters – it's all about status.
That kind of social climbing is unhealthy, and this article touches on only part of it.

Does anyone ever really need a 25,000-square-foot house? How about 35,000?
In the end, what do you do with all of it? Much of it ends up unused, or even walled off.

 

[DanOregon]

Clarissa Wagner: For months we worked like maniacs to get Chloe into Knowles. Extra tutors, the interviews, the tests...
Detective Lennie Briscoe: Sounds like a lot of stress.
Clarissa Wagner: Valium helps.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: Not on you; on your daughter.
Clarissa Wagner: Well, you're never too young to learn how to cope.
Detective Ed Green: It's only kindergarten.
Clarissa Wagner: It's not just kindergarten - it's the rest of her life. The right prep school leads to the right college, the right job, the right career, the right husband. It's a carefully calibrated ladder. And if you miss a step - excuse me, that's the caterer, I'll be right back.

 

[Bradley Guire]

W ... T ... F? For a BAG?!

Birkins range in price from $10,500 to $150,000.

One day, she'll be the best-dressed corpse in the boneyard. Money and power still can't solve the fact that ya can't take it with ya.

 

[MisterCreosote]

How valuable is "status" when the other 99.99999999 percent of the country thinks you're just an asshole and is laughing at you?

 

[Steak Snabler]

I'm not sure they realize anyone outside their social circle even exists ... other than in a service capacity.

 

[Vombatus]

The rest of the world are peasants. Peons. Sounds like some NYC crime needs to flow up there and do some carjacking and bag snatching.

Never thought a bag would cost more than a car though. I wonder what they are made of. Specially-treated cows? Elephants? PETA should investigate these Birken ****ers. That could be the first step in bringing these mommies down. Then, throw blood on them.

 

[Riptide]

Yeah, I still thought $500 or $1,000 was an outrageous price for a bag, though that's still understandable
for the well-heeled set. But $10,000 ... or $30,000? For a bag? Just another ostentatious display of wealth.