While lounging in my massage chair, I flipped through the August issue of Marie Claire magazine and came across an article titled "Where the men are." It highlighted 18 cities across America where upstanding single women with style and grace can find eligible bachelors to sink their claws into and make babies with.
Each city section discussed the type of men in that particular town (hobbies, personal style, ethics, etc.), the type of women they're attracted to, average age of marriage (25 in Columbus!!??), typical date nights, etc. Los Angeles, Columbus, New York, Seattle and Dallas were just a few of the many manly paradises featured.
Washington D.C. was not featured. Neither was any town in Virginia or Maryland.
This does not come as a surprise.
As the plethora of 30 year-old single, attractive, successful, driven and confident women in this region know, that is because hooking and reeling in a real man in this region is like finding a pair of Christian Louboutins on the clearance rack at TJ Maxx.
We do however have a major overstock of these:
This heterosexual male Washingtonian was "taking a mani/pedi break" with his female coworker.
Actually overheard by Flo and me as he walked over to the manicure chair in his purple nail salon foam flippy-flops:
"I kicked the wall and I think I messed up those toes," he pointed out to his manicurist.
Okay. Getting "buffed" is one thing. Getting clear polish on your toes is clearly another.
Did I mention I've lived in Washington for 10 years now? No wonder all my girlfirends have moved away over the past six months - mostly to Marie Claire's featured "manly" cities.
Flo and I, however, are stuck in this "mani" city for the foreseeable future.
1 comments:
There are so many reasons why this is funny:
1. you are hilarious.
2. this is ridiculous.
3. this is ridiculously typical in D.C.
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