Sell Oprah The Bag

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Right, because making assumptions about someone's finances based on the color of the person's skin is... what's the word... it rhymes with basest....

it's best not to assume anything about anyone...looks, dress, etc. i've gone out in less than my best, salespeople don't know what i can/can't afford.
and i've got some people who come in my office who look like poor dirt farmers. they're anything but.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

it's best not to assume anything about anyone...looks, dress, etc. i've gone out in less than my best, salespeople don't know what i can/can't afford.
and i've got some people who come in my office who look like poor dirt farmers. they're anything but.

So true. I was at Aqueduct early this year with friends (the ones who rescued three of the Paragallo horses) and they pointed out two people in the paddock to me- to look at them, they were dressed not too far off of what I've seen some homeless people on the streets wearing, but my friend said in fact they were billionaires. They definitely weren't spending it on their wardrobe.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

So true. I was at Aqueduct early this year with friends (the ones who rescued three of the Paragallo horses) and they pointed out two people in the paddock to me- to look at them, they were dressed not too far off of what I've seen some homeless people on the streets wearing, but my friend said in fact they were billionaires. They definitely weren't spending it on their wardrobe.

Strange but I got back from San Diego last week and out there the homeless people looked homeless and the rich, well looked rich.

Highly noticeable was both the homeless and the rich were in far superior physical shape compared to their peers back home in the Midwest.

[randallscott35]

Even the homeless gotta look good in Cali

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Strange but I got back from San Diego last week and out there the homeless people looked homeless and the rich, well looked rich.

Highly noticeable was both the homeless and the rich were in far superior physical shape compared to their peers back home in the Midwest.

My husband commented that the first thing he noticed when he moved from Dallas to NYC was how much thinner people were in NYC. And I have a friend in Florida who asked me if people in NYC dress better than people in the rest of the country. I said, not exactly, but NYCers do plan what they wear, as opposed to the tourists here, who are identifiable because they clearly just picked the most comfortable things they own, put them on and called it an outfit. So, while a New Yorker can look just as bad as any tourist, a person can tell that it's a bad that they thought about ahead of time.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

My husband commented that the first thing he noticed when he moved from Dallas to NYC was how much thinner people were in NYC. And I have a friend in Florida who asked me if people in NYC dress better than people in the rest of the country. I said, not exactly, but NYCers do plan what they wear, as opposed to the tourists here, who are identifiable because they clearly just picked the most comfortable things they own, put them on and called it an outfit. So, while a New Yorker can look just as bad as any tourist, a person can tell that it's a bad that they thought about ahead of time.

Which is why the obese in this country should subsidize health care for the rest of us, not the other way around.

[Danzig]

someone made a comment yesterday about why so many here are obese. i said 'yeah, cause everything is fried with gravy on it'.

we've walked into, and then right back out of restaurants around here many times. i will not eat where everything is breaded and fried. cooking is a regional thing, just like many other things... and i guess folks down here don't know that frying food adds 40% more calories to the food they're ruining....

oh, and biscuits served with EVERYTHING.

[jms62]

I think there is a lot of Stress eating going on in this country right now.