When It Rain...It...Rains...And...

Bumper Sticker

1) Driving behind a woman in a Toyota sedan, Riverside, CT. Bumper sticker:

Wise Men Still Seek Him

Note To Him:

With all due respect, this does not seem to be working well enough. Perhaps it's too exclusive a group. May I humbly suggest more Women Seekers be pursued or that You ramp up efforts to recruit more Un-wise men?

Respectfully,

3G

2) In-Turn Defined: "You will provide work to us and our clients and can tell your parents, friends and prospective selective schools that you work/ed here; you will have  other people with whom you can work, and services and products with which you can work - In-Turn - we will not pay you much or at all, or cover your personal expenses, and we will own all of your work and it's value forever. Further, this in-turnship does not imply any offer of future employment or future in-turnships."

3) License plate on Mini Cooper parked in Greenwich, CT:

MOMLET

Merc nearby:

BREATH 

Please. Why do we do these things to ourselves?

Full

4) Somebrellas are Better Than Others: One of our favorite city things to do is walk down Madison or Park in the rain after visiting our club on East 79th Street. We buy a new umbrella near any subway station or major intersection, if we've left ours at home or on the train into town. We always get the big one for about $10. We say "about," because, depending on where you are, the vendor, just in from Africa (they own this business), might ask $12 or even $15. Just tell him you're a New Yorker and he'll take less, maybe even $8 on a slow day. After all, he wants to be a New Yorker too.

5) Speaking of our club: the Travellers &Writers Club is the result of the merger some years ago between two clubs, The Travellers and Writers & Artists. The Travellers had a great building, the site of the merged club, and W&A had a better library.

Choice

The club offers a very efficient solution to the fact that it has no steam room. On hot, rainy, muggy days , such as we've recently been having, the staff closes the windows and doors in the The beautiful tall-ceilinged Reading Room on the 2nd floor and turns off the air conditioning for an hour or so. This results in members being able to read and get a steam in the same room.

No need to bother with a shower afterwards on those rainy days!

Also, the club has brilliantly outsourced its all of its dining, except for Elevenses and Tea, to the very affordable Viand Cafe, which is practically next door. It is, of course, run by a man named Ari (Greeks still own this business).


6) License plate on a gray Maserati ahead of us in Rye, NY:

F08-08S

We though it odd that this Mighty Mas owner would not bother to get a vanity plate; however, while stuck at a red light, we figured it out. F**k 08, 08 Su**ed. Indeed. Guess it was an '09 Mas, succor (sorry) for the TooBigToFail class.

Confusion

The Mas was immediately replaced in front of us by a gray Astin Martin Rapide. License plate:

RAPIDE

How slow can you get. Arrete!


Ed Note: Apologies, but currently my old iphone is not on speaking terms with my old  mac with new software. So, we need to use stock photos.  Maybe my editors will provide a new phone!!??