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Last night I went with a friend to Film Forum to see the documentary “La Danse” by Frederic Wiseman about the Paris Opera Ballet.
The documentary lasted a bit longer than I expected, and when we left the theater it was already 11:15 PM.
Experience has taught me that when it comes to restaurants New York is not yet the city that never sleeps, but we found a small Italian restaurant in Soho where we could still eat a plate of pasta.
Six businessmen and one young woman were seated at the table next to us. At another table two provocatively dressed women were having dinner. They were flirting with two of the businessmen.
My friend asked: “Are these women escorts?”

“Perhaps,” I said.

“But what do escorts do in a restaurant like this?”

“They are entitled to a day off as well. And perhaps these women are plain gold diggers.”

I have nothing against gold diggers. I would love to live in a society where people could put it on their business card: “Mary Jones – gold digger”.


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Arnon
Isn't it safe to say even writing, is a form of gold digging?
Arnon is gold, I am the digger.
Rachel Papo photographed young Russian ballet students for her project "Desperately Perfect": http://www.rachelpapo.com/perfect1.html
Bernard
You are back! A miracle.
gold
If the adage "An unhappy childhood is a writer's goldmine" is true, every writer would be a gold-digger by definition.
Congratulations on your Constant Huygenswinning
@Arnon
A miracle? I simply have to give in to temptation.
Contrary to what I have said a few years ago, now you are surely able to win this Rudolf Valentino prize for seduction too, or even better, the Ramses Shaffy prize for seducing everyone. (Maybe it is alchemy.)
With Christmas I will be stroling through the snow in Lapland. I read in a book, earlier, that Lapland has a long history of Golddiggers (the recordfinding was in 1998: a woman found a stone of 250gr pure gold.)