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perletwo
2007-03-26 03:01 am UTC (link)

I couldn't make it through all 400+ comments, my stamina is not that great.

But I did have a Bzuh?!? moment at a complaint in the comments 'if you're wearing a red or purple hat.'

Why???? Is their money not spendy? And yes, I know about the Red Hat Society, but I've been to/seated near a few RHS meetings and I've never found them to be outrageously hootennannyish. Is there something really obvious here I'm missing?

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	squib 2007-03-26 05:27 am UTC (link)
	Wait... people are bitching about the RHS? Do they have the first clue how much money we spend on restaurants?? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	perletwo 2007-03-26 05:36 am UTC (link)
	That's what I thought...the meeting I went to (observe), the local nursing home literally bussed them in to the restaurant. That's, what, 15-20 guaranteed lunch checks on top of the chapter members who got there under their own power? Nothing to sneeze at! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lessis 2007-03-26 05:55 am UTC (link)
	Unless(in the waiter's experience) they have a tendency to be overly demanding and leave lousy tips. (Reply to this)(Parent)

waitwut
2007-03-26 03:20 pm UTC (link)

I think there are any number of groups (you know, like teenagers, etc - any group could be this way, really) that are total harpies and downright nasty to the waitstaff. So when these groups come back, waiters run in fear.

But for every post on Customers_suck about the RHS and how they treat the wait staff, a different waiter will pop up and say "well, my group is sooooo nice."

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	catremistrae 2007-03-26 05:45 am UTC (link)
	Blinding color combinations, perhaps? Maybe it's just me, but I've never been able to stand red and purple together. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

perletwo
2007-03-26 05:55 am UTC (link)

Yeah. The writer of the original poem used it as an example of something her character would never have the nerve to try and pull off until she was very old and had a kind of merry 'fuck-you' attitude. The first few lines (copyright, what copyright?):

WARNING
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

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	mmanurere 2007-03-26 06:21 am UTC (link)
	...I think I want to be an old woman. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	perletwo 2007-03-26 06:31 am UTC (link)
	Yep, that's the Red Hat Society spirit. I found the entire poem here after I posted that scrap. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lady_red 2007-03-26 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	This story turned up in a UK newspaper a few weeks ago: I want to be this lady when I get old. Though I imagine I shall be far too busy being a crazy cat lady & yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mmanurere 2007-03-27 05:20 am UTC (link)
	Given that I'm planning to be a professor, I'll have the luxury of going loudly and flamboyantlly insane without the risk of getting fired. ...as soon as I have tenure, at least. In any case, screw this "live fast, die young" garbage; I plan to live a long time and take advantage of my age. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	miss_arel 2007-03-27 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	In short: first I want to be young and vivacious; then I want to be middle-aged and rich; then I want to be old, and annoy people by pretending to be deaf. /blackadder (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hellespont 2007-03-26 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	That was pretty much my grandma. Except her clothes always matched. Her wig, on the other hand... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	catremistrae 2007-03-26 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	Aha! So this is the poem my aunt was talking about. Unfortunately, she's taken it less in the spirit it was intended and more as a die-hard rule, and has taken to dressing like a grape with no foundation garments. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	perletwo 2007-03-28 06:26 am UTC (link)
	Ouch. I can sympathize with the retinal scarring. My grandmother can match colors OK, but she's convinced she's still a size Medium. All I can think about her clothes sometimes is, Damn that's gotta chafe. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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