Posted on 03/17/2009 9:21:34 PM PDT by Lorianne
SPEND $500 on two magnums of Veuve Clicquot Champagne at Bagatelle on West 13th Street in the meatpacking district, and the bottles are delivered to your table with lighted sparklers stuck in their corks.
Spend $2,500 on a jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot and some magnums of Dom Pérignon, and the lights dim, the D.J. cues up the theme from “Superman,” and a waiter is hoisted onto the shoulders of his fellow servers. With a tablecloth knotted around his neck as a makeshift cape and his arms outstretched, he carries one of the blazing bottles of bubbly to your table.
As the waiter soars through the air, he does so against a backdrop of patrons fist-pumping Champagne flutes, flashing cameras capturing pictures ripe for Facebook and a dozen young women clad in sequins, stilettos and Chanel bags climbing onto chairs, banquettes, even tables — any elevated surface that is sturdy enough to dance on.
A 29-year-old man who works for a large investment management firm and was at Bagatelle’s brunch one recent Saturday and at Merkato 55’s the next, put it another way: “If you’d asked me in October, I’d say it’d be a different situation, and I don’t think I’d be here. Then the government gave us $10 billion.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Just the places that AIG executives can spend their enriched wallets/purses.
It’s tough getting by on a few million bonus these days. But we all learn to tighten the belt. No more Maseratis for the birthday.
Well, there should be should be some trickle down...
(the above aside was directed toward the NYT, not you Lorianne)
Ok, I had to look Maseratis up. (Italian racing/sports cars)
Um, yeah, not exactly ‘depression cars’
Perhaps I should work on converting my bicycle to steam power.
Someone should “trickle down” the phone number of the blonde
in the background with “the view” for starters.
I’ve heard of the phenomenon.
People with money are spending because there’s nowhere safe to invest.
They might as be the ones buying $1000 bottles of champagne and pissing it away rather than Obama doing the same.
Ralph Kramden: I'm calling Bellevue..BECAUSE YOU'RE NUTS!
If I ordered a $2500 bottle of anything, my husband would have me taken away in a straight jacket!
LOL, Bellevue!
(Good one)
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