“I DO NOT LIKE RICH PEOPLE”

A Yiddishe Cup musician, loading in at a country club, said, “I do not like rich people.”

You talkin’ to me?

What’s the median household income in the United States — $50,000?

I had access to Alan Dershowitz’s cell phone number.  He did the Electric Slide at a bar mitzvah party. (I wasn’t playing; I was a guest.) I could have posted Dershy’s dorky disco on YouTube, but why embarrass a landsman – and maybe get sued.  [“Landsman” means paisan.]

Dershowitz has a place on the Vineyard, I learned.  Dershy is rich.  “Rich” is pronounced “well-off.”

Maybe my band mate, at the country club, was upset because the club’s manager, Kim, wouldn’t let us in the buffet line, and had told us to drink only lemonade, not even pop.  And we couldn’t go into the kids’ buffet line, even with all the fried junk there. [Kim is not her real name.]

We got cold-cut sandwiches around 2:30 p.m.  This, for lunch?

I’ll eat anything.  The video guy wouldn’t.  (Later, he would.)  He said, “It is truly a disgrace to serve this to professionals.”  He said that to the musicians, not the manager.

I do not like rich people . . .

Photographer Herb Ascherman got a decent meal. No wraps for Herb.   In his contracts, Herb has the line “client will provide a hot meal.”  Herb knows how to deal with rich people and Kim, who is rich, but not well off.
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