The Other Side
Cow will set her post-graduate education and professional credentials up against anyone. Not so her salary, which has been a sad casualty of Cow's lack of specialization.Venturing across the interstate freeway to the land where every parking lot has a fountain, landscaping and winding pathways, Topiary starts feeling shorter, less well-dressed, and definitely worse-groomed. Her car all of a sudden seems older, and her clothes much too wrinkly.
In the land of lattes and full-priced books, Lexus and manicures and million-dollar mansions, where everyone is tall, slender and wears brand-name shoes, Topiary can take solace in the fact that she has, after all, big bucks to spend.
Only in the Fantasy Stock Market where weblogs are the companies. But hey.
Moo!
posted by The Topiary Cow at
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I live in the land of full priced books which annoys me no end as I know what other countries pay.
Fantasy Stock Market. Now, not exactly sure how it works but I feel pretty special with all that money in the bank.
Want to go shopping? Have an afternoon latte? See you soon!
Hee hee!
With that hefty bank balance apparently cute shoes, lattes and not-on-sale books are now possible!
Hey, it's fantasy, anything is possible!
Moo!
It sounds awful in the land of lattes and fancy cars, I'd rather be from where ever you're from as I think I live in a very similar place, although the neighboring town is definitely like your fountain-land, I try not to go there in my 10-year-old Subaru :)
Beep beep! 10-year-old Subaru coming through (crowds part in dismay)
Yeah, know what you mean...perhaps it's best to stay on the other side of the tracks...er, freeway.
Moo!
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Latte is baby food for adults, Ms Cow. Iced tea is much more sophisticated.
I live in the land of big bucks while making tiny bucks. I feel frumpy, not tall enough, and poor.
I also hate my job, where I do it that is...
I love what I do, but not who I do it for. I need to find a way to do it for ME, not them. But sadly, that takes big bucks, which I don't have.
i used to live in nyc and have friends with vaguely fancy jobs. i, myself, developed vaguely fancy tastes. i also spent a ridiculous amount of money on my life and have ABSOLUTELY nothing to show for it.
when i moved to rural nj, there was a generous amount of culture shock. i was fairly snobby and snooty about myself (fiance and i shorten that to snooby). my hoity, toity-ness could not have been pretty.
last weekend, nearly three years later, i found myself in a snooby little neighborhood in an upscale town. everything seemed wildly expensive and annoyingly falutin'.
i did not fit in and ran happily home.
i don't want to live in the land of lexus, although i would like lots of money.
sign me up for the fantasy stock market.
the truly wealthy, old-moneyed folks often wear shabby clothes and drive teenaged volvos, saabs and other such sturdy fair.
a ten year old subaru is a mere child. nouveau riche.
fyi, i drive an 11 year old subaru. perhaps they are related? mine is red. very sweet littlecar.
Gorilla: Trust a Gorilla to know sophisticated (hiding all lattes!)
Karen: Welcome back! Excellent analogy--big bucks land, tiny bucks income. Here's hoping you do find a way out of working for the brother. As for getting taller....hmmm...not seeing it happening, for you for for Cow!
Weight: yes, amazing how lifestyles can rub off...when you live in the world of lattes where everyone is walking around with their over-priced cup it is easy to think that such consumption is normal, and start adopting it for yourself too.
Love your word "falutin'!" Hee!
Glad you and your cute red car made it out to a better neighborhood.
Moo!
Bananas is quite right to sneer at the latte and Ms Weight at the Lexus, all that new money is sooo garish.
I hear the bicycle is quite the thing in really smart circles
I always feel absolutely fine about how I am (a jeans and t-shirt type of girl) until I get to the mall, and then I have a horrible breakdown of inadequacy.
Thank the good Lord above, I only go to the mall if I need something specific, and the feeling wears off as soon as I drive away.
Lulu: Here's to bicycles, or skateboards. Only downside: getting swiped by some SUV-driver who is too busy texting to watch the road.
Sari: Yes, have found visits to the mall can easily be substituted by online shopping in most cases, except possibly for clothes. Yet some live there, go figure!
Thanks for writing!
Sitting on one of the buses from my workplace I am on "the other side," in that I have both a forehead and a chin. This isn't as self-affirming as it should be.
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