VIP
The agency just called.
“You got a short, white tennis skirt and lots of champagne in your future,” Renee said. As the agency’s head booker, she loves coming up with dramatic lines when I land an assignment.
The “Evian” marketing team liked me; I’ll be their VIP “hostess” for the beginning, and end, of the U.S. Open. Is “hostessing” an actual job, you ask? In New York City it is…especially when you’re 25, vaguely attractive, poor and at work on your first novel. I see it this way: a tennis skirt and an “Evian. Live Young” tank top in the cool comfort of a Flushing Meadows VIP room is much more agreeable than juggling plates and bickering over the tip pool at some Midtown, one-star restaurant.
The egos, however, are going to get me. How goes the F. Scott Fitz quote? “The rich, they’re not like you and me.” The same can be said for the men that inhabit VIP rooms. The laminated cards, wrist bands and free-flowing alcohol give them the bravado and swagger normally reserved for rock stars. Add to the mix my scanty attire and subservient position and, in their minds, I’ve become a veritable groupie.
One errant hard-on and I’m out of there.
I’m not goddamn Penny Lane.
August 24th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Oh, I’m sure you can handle the boyz. I’m not sure what the VIP lounge is like at the US Open, but the corporate suites are incredible. Unlike many of the older stadiums that had them retrofitted in, Ashe’s boxes are the best seats in the house. You can sit outside and watch it live or inside on TV. Overall, 1 of my favorite sporting events to attend.
Of course, I don’t have to wear a skimpy white dress and be hit on by overbearing people.
August 25th, 2005 at 11:55 pm
By the way, you scared me a little with the beginning of that post. VIP … the agency called. Made it sound like you were an escort rather than a hostess.
Oh my … what would those parents think of their sweet southern belle?
September 15th, 2005 at 4:52 am
Toi la nguoi Viet Nam, Nen VIP doi voi toi that la quan trong vi de phan dau de tro thanh VIP khong phai la de.Ban co doc duoc khong???
September 16th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
Penny Lane?? holy hell that made me laugh. loud. out loud.
my favorite movie of all time, and i even have street sign PENNY LANE from years ago in younger years.
April 5th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
it sounds like it had potential. it almost makes me think, I could pick up and leave Michigan and move to NY and find a way to live. Who needs a 9-5?