While we're on the subject of behavior.. .

Story, please! An open house, a day of showings, or a coop board approval meeting? Poor taste, bad behavior, simply disastrous...

"Don't show up drunk. Don't show up stoned."

- Adams House guidelines for personal conduct at breakfast (not applicable to lunch, dinner, intramural athletics or House Committee meetings)

or high as a kite on crystal which i recently experienced at a new "luxury condo development" right off the highline. they took both the high and the line part much too seriously

Ali, are these instructions for agents or for clients?

How else does one have fun?

Here it is folks...the endless mixed message.
For most of my life it has been accepted wisdom that 80% of life was just showing up.
Show up with a good hair cut, shiny shoes and, the right outfit, they throw you another 10%.
Here's the trick...keep your mouth shut and your home free.
Whom ever we are talking about, I'll bet, failed to do that.
I'm going to stick with the positive afformations.
Don't do this, don't do that...??????
How long is this list?
Stay positive!
Show up!
Ask Shawn how it went for him...

Okay, so maybe not for Adams House .. but these are guidelines for clients seeing real estate. I'm not talking the supermodel visiting SoHo loft with "broker to the stars" -- though those people can be annoying too -- but I'm talking regular ol' rich people who think their money allows them to come in just a bit too giddy..

Jasonkyle, maybe we had the same people!

lo888, how else does one have fun? One buys!
ali

Adams house? Who cares what adams house thinks. The Fly Club is the place to be if we're dropping names

ali: If there was a choice between drunk and stoned, I'd rather deal w/ stoned...boring and vapid but easier to hussle out.

jasonkyle: I must be getting old, how can you tell if someone is high on crystal meth
(besides the bad teeth thingy)?

how to tell if someone is high on crystal meth?

"Everything and everybody is so beautiful and fabulous and WONDERFUL and exciting! Don't you just LOVE everything?!"

Variations on someone high on Ecstasy (MDMA) or on MDA. Note the "meth" in MDMA and MDA.

Lowery that sounds like every selling broker's speil when you are looking at an apartment. Not just in New York, have you ever watched "House Hunters"? (Apologies to Ali et al who I don't get the impression sink to those depths).

lowery pretty much answered that question. there is also a lot of repeating the same thing over and over like it is a completely new thought without realizing you just said it. i can spot it a mile away. i wish i couldn't but that drug is a vile monster that has destroyed the lives of quite a few of people i know. then the following week a friend of mine who knows this person confirmed that he has a serious problem. i hope he finds help.

on a side note why is adams house so legendary? all the men i know who lived there in college seem awfully nerdy to me. in an adorable way of course.

Re: vile monster drugs ruining people's lives, let's not stop at crystal meth.... Ecstasy is a relative. Powder cocaine is still going up people's noses. What's sad is that higher-income, basically well-educated people get sucked into chemicals with pretty names, thinking they are oh, so different from "crackheads."

"how to tell if someone is high on crystal meth?

"Everything and everybody is so beautiful and fabulous and WONDERFUL and exciting! Don't you just LOVE everything?!""

I disagree with that (but do agree with that re: X. Typical rolling behaviour). One good sign of meth addict: unexplainable sores/scabs constantly being picked at.

But hey, meth is the truly American drug, as Jazz is the truly American music. Although it is MUCH more Western US than Eastern, except among certain subcultures (like gay men).

30yrs, don't you have a such a wide range of topics of interest. A true SE culture critic, like W67. You'll make a classy bartender in the SE bar...

bad dog.... bad doggie....