Saturday, September 20, 2008

Down and out in NYC


Headline from today's Wall Street Journal:


As Times Turn Tough, New York's Wealthy Economize:
Plastic Surgeons, Jewelers, Yacht Builders Brace for Leaner Times; Saying No to Caviar


And the first few parargraphs:


A nose job in a hospital with a private nurse in attendance had been something of a rite of passage for Joan Asher's children. But when her fourth and last child was ready for her own rhinoplasty recently, Ms. Asher asked her to postpone it.
The financial markets were simply more out of whack than her 16-year-old's proboscis.
"The other noses were more prominent," the stay-at-home mother from a tony New York City suburb in Westchester County told her 16-year-old daughter. She could get hers done when things settled down.
The financial crisis on Wall Street has New York's well-to-do reeling.

2 comments:

Jeremiah Moss said...

man, you really have a gift for finding the best worst stuff!

Anonymous said...

Yes... Though as this shows, it's so difficult to be the youngest...