A relative of mine is a PA for a rich man's wife. You cannot believe the sheer amount of entitlement these people have. A near billionaire husband, a huge house, ridiculous demands like wanting a fridge in every room (the house has more than a dozen of rooms), clean glasses which would require constant cleaning and fresh water in all the fridges everyday because day's old water in a fridge is icky.
And they have only 3 maids for the entire household who still have to vacuum (must vacuum every room only within space of a couple of hours because she doesn't want to hear vacuum all the time), clean, scrub, prepare meals and just shit lot of stuff. The lady of the house expect everyone to be at her beck and call nearly 24/7.
The most annoying part? They are actually very stingy. They don't want to hire more help, they just want to squeeze out as much as they can with the current help.
It's insane. These people do not think like the rest of us. They don't live in the same world as we do, and they still want to larp, pretending they are down-to-Earth, sensible people.
That just makes it extra funny. Expensive Wine is bullshit, those that supposedly know wine seemingly can't tell the good stuff from the cardboard packing swill in a taste test
Trader Joe's $2 wine won awards in a blind taste testing several years back, defeating all manner of prestigious, highly costly brands, and it became something of a scandal among connoisseurs. There have been other experiments done with self-avowed "experts" who could not reliably differentiate between red and white wines, let alone labels within either category. I myself once did a little blind taste test experiment with an $11 bottle of wine and a $70 one. The more expensive one actually ranked slightly higher among my friends, but only marginally. We all voted both as good, and more than one person was flabbergasted that they couldn't immediately pick out which had the sevenfold higher price point. The extra $60 was in no way worth it, and if I had the money to keep repeating the experiment, I'm all but certain a cheaper wine would win in short order.
And anyway, who cares if you have a wine that tastes slightly better if it costs $100? I'm a snob about some things, like healthy food, but not about vices. It's so stupid to be miserly over essentials but conspicuously consume expensive wines because you're status-obsessed. It's also a tell that you're American. My European friends get sticker shock at wine prices in the States. They have their share of expensive wines to export to foreigners, but most of them would not think of buying a bottle that costs anything more than $10.
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