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Name: Soph Country: United States State: California Gender: Female
Interests: Cooking, and therefore Eating. Occupation: PR (Live it. Love it!) Industry: Travel (Damn it.)
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5/11/2003
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What am I doing wrong?
Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I'm a beautiful
(spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I'm articulate and classy.
I'm not from New York. I'm looking to get married to a guy who makes at
least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind
that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don't think
I'm overreaching at all.
Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could
you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around
200 - 250. But that's where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won't get
me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married
to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she's not as pretty as
I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I
get to her level?
Here are my questions specifically:
- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars,
restaurants, gyms
-What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won't hurt my
feelings
-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I'm 25)?
- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east
side so plain? I've seen really 'plain jane' boring types who have
nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I've seen drop dead
gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What's the story
there?
- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows - lawyer, investment
banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they
hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?
- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for
MARRIAGE ONLY
Please hold your insults - I'm putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I'm being up front
about it. I wouldn't be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn't
able to match them - in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a
nice home and hearth.
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial
interests
PostingID: 432279810
THE ANSWER Dear Pers-431649184: I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament. Firstly, I'm not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits your bill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That said here's how I see it.
Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a cr@ppy business deal. Here's why. Cutting through all the B.S., what you suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here's the rub, your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity...in fact, it is very likely that my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won't be getting any more beautiful!
So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!
So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold...hence the rub...marriage. It doesn't make good business sense to "buy you" (which is what you're asking) so I'd rather lease. In case you think I'm being cruel, I would say the following. If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It's as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage.
Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So, I wonder why a girl as "articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful" as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K hasn't found you, if not only for a tryout.
By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then we wouldn't need to have this difficult conversation.
With all that said, I must say you're going about it the right way. Classic "pump and dump." I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of lease, let me know.
My boss sent me this email with a red High Importance ! this
morning. I thought it was hilarious...After I was done chuckling
though, I wondered what the heck LB's getting at!? Why the ! and
why only send it to me!? 1st of all, I have no interest in dating at the
moment...if and when I do, you'll know it. 2nd - I'm not a gold-digger
seeking out semi-millionaire sugar daddies to spoil me rotten, so need to explain how I'm like a flower no longer in bloom but in fact wilting at an accelerated rate. 3rd, I totally know I
was right on the money when I said that after turning 25, I better be satisfied with
who I am, because from here on out, my ass-ets are depreciating. Even
though I was told that that was too pessimistic and depressing
sounding by someone, I am definitely not mistaken for the aforementioned reasons stated above. Also for that reason, I have always been one to take the "she has a pleasant personality" compliment over the "she's good looking" type of stuff because I would never want to be seen as someone that's like "dry toast" to talk to and character can only get better over time...My favorite compliment has always been Rosie's (as she's looking at my behind...) "check out the big' ol brain's on Phee!" Or maybe that wasn't a compliment afterall since she thinks my smarts are no where near the vicinity of my head... 
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| So Sunday was the final straw and thank goodness- the last day that Rosie's subletter was with me. To start with, I don't expect most people to like me...in fact the few that actually do I'm indubitably grateful for because it soothes my insecurities and reassures me that I'm not a universally hated bitch afterall. That being said, this girl has made me wonder what it is about me that people can't seem to stand for the duration of 56 days, 3 hours and 57 minutes...In her case, I've now inferred that it's probably the fact that I blink my eyes, breathe air through my nose, eat foods other than cornflakes and basically socialize among the living that makes her not like me that much. The rest of her awkward demeanor is her.
This chick was a bit iffy from the word go...After meeting with her, she seemed very nice- maybe not cool- but nice to say the least...she said that she would be out most of the day, wouldn't have people over - just her boyfriend occasionally (though we assured her that, if she so wished, she could since we do it all the time). But at the mere mention of the "P" word, she seemed to cringe and adamantly object with "I don't drink or do that stuff." Obviously we aren't her type of people.
Then she moved in, and that's when disturbance in the force commenced. Trying my very best to be hospitable, welcoming and warm, I have gotten nothing but a progressively cold, creepy, sullen and eccentric at best response in return. For amusement I would randomly tell people about my trials and tribulations with this girl. A mental list of "Damn-She's-Hella-Weird-But-At-Least-She'll-Be-Gone-Soon" tales that I had yet to commit to memory with pen and paper...but after her evasive absurdities, I figured it was time to share my grief and vent on world wide web...afterall, who doesn't need a little amusement in their life? So here it is, the 27 weird-ass-things that make you lose much needed Zs 'cause you have to sleep with one eye open for fear of your whacked out subletter:
- She only comes out of her room when she thinks I'm not around. Imagine how it would feel to be avoided every day and night...it's no ego boost.
- When I do come around, she dashes back to her room, much like a cockroach scurries to its hideaway after being shunned by the kitchen light (I've, thankfully, never had the pleasure of witnessing such a thing, but you hear about it or see it on TV so you presume it's so)
- When she actually comes out she's wearing that questionable black satin robe 80% of the time. Makes me feel like I'm frequenting one of those "happy ending" massage parlors. It's unsettling having to run into anyone wearing satin on a daily basis.
- She's wasteful. She doesn't recycle, reduce or reuse. Instead, she creates waste, multiplies that waste and is probably doing something wasteful right now. I've never had to take the garbage out so frequently, though I shouldn't have been surprised since her only concern upon moving in was where the dumpsters are located.
- Despite learning the location of said dumpsters, she never put that information to use. She knew where they were but couldn't be bothered to take out the trash.
- She only eats out of disposable plates and bowls with disposable utensils. She refuses to use our dishes and eating utensils even though I've sincerely told her she's welcome to use the dishes.
- She uses 1/2 - 3/4 a roll of toilet paper per day leaving just a handful of squares on the roll for me. I pride myself on my personal hygiene...I'm about as close to thorough godliness without having OCD as you can get - but for crying out loud- how much TP do you really need? And doesn't your bum get raw and chaffed from wiping that much?
- After using so much TP, she refuses to take her turn and get more. We literally had a toilet paper standoff where we waited to see who could ration out the last few squares the longest until the person that uses the very last square caves in and finally has to get more. I finally gave in because I- unlike her- cannot live without toiler paper.
- She seems to have broken the toilet, probably with all her ridiculous toilet paper consumption. I warned her that since our house is old, using that much toilet paper isn't a good thing - if not for saving the environment or preventing chaffing on your ass from overwiping, then consider the old plumbing. For some reason, when she flushes, the tank overfills with water and leaks onto the floor.
- She creeps around the house. Everytime she enters the room, she's scares the shit outta me. She always has to stealthily enter a room without making a single sound (must be that freakin' robe) which is kinda hard given that we have hard wood floors. Why and how she does that is beyond me.
- She likes to "sneak" her boyfriend into the house which is absurd since I told her she's totally welcome to have guests over whenever she likes...I hear his voice and I smell that icky nose-hair-singeing cologne that he always seems have gone overboard on, so I know he's there...(it's also evidenced by item #12 below). But I rarely ever see him because they like to ensure that I don't see him when he enters or exits. For crying out loud, I'm not going to hate on her and tell her dad she has a *gasp* boy over...well maybe as long as he doesn't do revolting things like pee on the toilet seat.
- She misses the toilet seat. Or he does. Regardless it's totally unacceptable. Either she/he have poor eyesight or they're simply inept at properly calibrating their urination so that it's properly aimed at that 16" diameter hole in the toilet seat. What's that you say? You're telling me that a grown-ass girl or her grown-ass boyfriend can't seem to not pee on the seat? Yes- believe it. And yes, it is mighty disgusting.
- Only wears dresses when her and her bf go out which strikes my moderately feminist sensibilities as obnoxiously subservient and Orwellian.
- She likes to leave the lights on...all night long... Every morning I wake up and have to turn all the lights in the living room and porch off. It wastes electricity and dammit, how lazy can a person be? I used to turn the porch light on for her out of consideration but after she kept leaving it on, I decided- Fuck it, let her fumble around in the dark. That was until she couldn't figure out how to open the front door one night and woke me up to let her in.

- ...but, she likes to watch TV in the dark. I don't know how many times I've come home thinking no one's there and lo' and behold- there she is, watching TV- which she'll abruptly turn off as though she's done watching and then head back to her room.
- She only watches 'Big Brother'-nothing else- just that show. Perceiving that as weird just might be me though...I'm weary of anyone that would watch such a vapid reality show, which is just a watered down wannabe of MTV's 'Real World'. Actually, with the way she's behaving, she probably thinks she's living in some kind of 'Big Brother' type household scenario where I'm constantly monitoring and calculating her every move. Little do I know but victory will soon be hers once I relinquish the 'Head of Household' title when she out-eats me in a cornflakes eating contest.
- She likes stuffy living spaces. She doesn't like to leave windows open to let the rooms ventilate even though its stiflingly hot and as a result...
- ...Her room stinks. That shit is totally gross. Especially since I don't want that musty smell to spread to my room. That stench reminds me of something like sleep...Anyone that has ventured near South
campus in the wee morning hours barely half-past dawn knows that
smell...something like what I imagine is a melange of stale morning
breath barely disguised by half-assed-toothbrushing faintly hinting of minty toothpaste along with a certain funkiness that can only be described as the muskiness of
unwashed bedsheets.
- She'll talk to my friends but not to me. Somehow J managed to chat her up for a good 5-10 minutes, but as soon as I re-entered the room, she clammed up and fled to her room.
- She's become so cold Rosie doesn't even want to come around. How freakin' lame do you have to be if the person that vouched for you doesn't even want to be around you anymore?
- Apparently, she believes doors don't close properly unless they're slammed. She always slams the doors - always.
- She lies. And I'm crazy for implying that she doesn't close the outer perimetry door. Before she moved in, the outer door was always properly locked. However, she moves in and now it's never locked. By process of elimination and by sheer logic, it therefore must be her. But oh no, it couldn't be, since she herself says that she always locks it and in fact, is the one finding the door unlocked.

- She only eats cornflakes. All day, everyday. Obviously, breakfast as the most important meal of the day has been taken a tad too far. Anytime I see her eating it just so happens to be corn-fucking-flakes. And she'll hoard them in her room so that I rarely see her actually eating her flakes (why hide it?). I now know the secret to acheiving that covetted slender figure...it's the cornflakes diet.
- She eats cornflakes ONLY with H2O. She's never bought milk once, yet always has cereal on hand. I know she's eating it with a liquid of some sort since I can hear her slurping away, but she doesn't have anything in the fridge but water so...
- Yet she's not lactose intolerant since she eats ice cream.
- All the bulbs in the room she occupied burnt out. Besides the fact that ALL the lights burnt out in addition to the light in the fridge and living room during her brief stay, it's weird that she didn't say anything to me about it. Has she been sitting alone in her dark room all this time? She surely could've told me that the bulbs needed to be changed...it's not like we don't have anymore bulbs.
- She can't clean - not even just one thing?! Just one? She didn't wash the cookie sheet and let it rust in the sink. She only used one item during her entire stay and she couldn't clean up after herself. Needless to say, my energy was well directed for I was pissed that I had to scrub the burnt cheese and meat from their leftover pizza off the bake ware.
Oh, how I've missed my Rosie and Mel.
And she left her towel. She better not come back for that because if I never saw her again it would be too soon.
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| Damn...I never update this since nothing really eventful enough
happens to make it worth my while. However, today I saw this on DailyCandy and
couldn't help but think that despite having a
great b-day, a little rhythmic emotional support couldn't hurt.

With this here do-dad called the OhMiBod, you can "...plug the five-and-a-half-inch
long, um, gadget into (your) iPod. The cylinder-shaped massager will
then vibrate to the rhythm of the music."
Wowwy wow...iPhone eat your heart out.
Oh, and it comes in a nifty pink bag! Nothing beats that...
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