I’ve recently found out that the Black Amex, that uber-prestigious spending spree card that people pay lots and lots of money for is now being made in Titanium, yes it actually weighs down your wallet and can now set off metal detectors from afar. I found this lovely information in a straight bar, the card itself was casually being shown off - totted by an egger female bartender that knew the regular and wanted to show of his wealth and prowess.
Actually it was a restaurant, I was sitting at the bar sucking down oysters, cheap vodka and enjoying my status as youngest person in the joint, but man this place has damn good oysters. I was mingling with a contractor from Westchester that imported marble from Turkey, he was sucking down Little Necks and telling me his business woes, I was jokingly guessing that he was a Republican (and was right). We talked a bit about Hillary Clinton and her impending bid for the presidency.
Then it happened, the conversation changed as we felt up a Black American Express card, no longer decked out in plastic, I guess it wears better in titanium, I guess for a thousand bucks a card, they can afford to issue the card in titanium. Isn’t titanium what makes up the hull of the space shuttle? In any case, marble-importer-from-Westchester is bitching that his business partner won’t let him have one.
He asks me rhetorically if I know how you get one? A few years ago when I worked at the Essex House, I heard it was $3,000 a pop, by invitation only and a person needed to spend at least $150,000 a year on travel expenses alone. I guess they’ve since lowered their standards. Again at the Essex House, the condo director told me that one of these puppies purchased a condo. I could never imagine buying a condo on a charge card.
I guess I’m not up on my showy and ostentatious credit cards, after all I’m just trying to pay down my boring lack luster Capital One. Yet the girls seemed to be into it, I’m sure if he wiped out the card in a gay bar, he would get a reaction, maybe not the show of tits he got in the straight bar, yet I’m sure he would arouse interest. I guess the thousand dollars was well spent.
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