The Feminine Mistake
24.Dec.2007, 08:27 amStuart Weitzman shoes $200, Bloomingdale’s
“Thanks for dinner, sexy.” I kiss The Boy, my boy, my lips stamping Chinese tea on his stubbled cheek.
“Twenty bucks,” reads The Boy, signing the check. “You’re the most low maintenance chick ever.”
I pat my carefully curled bobbed hair, I dab my polished nude lips with crisp linen. “I try.” While The Boy fishes for the waiter’s attention, I eye my eyeliner in the mirror of my porcelain powder compact.
“Do you know how many chicks would bum about coming to this Schezwan hole in the wall,” continues The Boy, “wishing I’d take them to Nobu instead?”
“Ridick,” I say. “Tell the hoes to book the reservation and pay for dinner, then.” I stab at kung pao chicken, letting the little piece sit a second in my mouth. “And then, tell the chick if she’s charming enough, at the end of dinner you’ll consider giving her brain.”
“I only realized 10 years ago,” he says, “how screwed up it was that girls thought they were doing me a favor, letting me buy them dinner, giving them a good time so they could decide whether or not they wanted to blow me.”
“It’s insane,” I say. “Women can make just as much money as any dude now. There’s no glass ceiling. Why should a man pay for everything?” I smash my fortune cookie, its crumbs contained neatly in its plastic wrapper. I pull out the sliver of paper: You will do well in your own business.
“Seriously,” says The Boy. “If you had a twin sister who was an exact clone of you, but already way loaded and she paid for everything, I’d dump you for her.”
“Do you really mean that?” I ask. I grind The Boy’s fortune cookie into the glass table: You value your morals over money. “I completely understand. That’s why we’re together: because I’d dump you for her, too.”
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27.Dec.2007, 12:41 pm
those were my must-have shoes for the season. Heart them!
27.Dec.2007, 10:25 pm
These are my favorite entries.
10.Sep.2008, 03:39 pm
Erica Asahan wrote:
I do have a pair of this gorge/chic shoes! I tell, I feel powerful and sexy at the same time! They are hot!