More Assholery

For such a so-called "liberal" paper, the New York Times is sure working overtime these days to provide the city's rich folk with a shoulder to cry on. Check out this article about a top New York City real estate agent giving up her Rolls fucking Royce in favor of - gasp! - an Audi station wagon! To look less pretentious.

"Ms. Baum said she could still afford the monthly lease — upward of $3,000 — and the high costs of repairing and garaging the car. She’s giving it up, she said, only because she has come to feel deeply uncomfortable riding around in the Rolls, spacious and well-appointed though it may be. 'I want to adjust to the times,' Ms. Baum said as she and Mr. Jaffeer stopped outside 580 Park Avenue, one of the city’s more prestigious prewar co-op buildings."

Really now, we wouldn't want mummy rolling up to Spoiled Brat Country Day in the Audi, now would we! Talk about embarrassing. Nothing says "one step away from food stamps" like having to trade down for a goddamn German engineered station wagon. Please tell me it's at least an A8 and not one of those lowly A4s, or, God forbid, an A3. Then you might as well just take your clients on the bus.