Interview · moment 3 of 22
Whole Foods, the Vegetable Stand, and Grapes of Wrath Life in LA
from Seeking Arrangements (with Wendi Starling) · #47
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3 minGuest
Wendy describes her pre-sugar-baby life in LA: working 40+ hours at Whole Foods, doing comedy at night, and selling vegetables at a farmers market for $120 a day while being sexually harassed by her boss, before moving to New York.
- 3:51Tim says he always feels like he's working, even doing comedy—it's not fun.
- 4:07Guest describes dating wealthy men as a "fancy girlfriend" situation, a recent development at 35.
- 5:04Working at Whole Foods in LA as a buyer for the whole body department while doing shows every night.
- 5:30Guest sold vegetables off a farm stand on Sunday mornings for $120 cash, a nine-hour day in the heat.
- 5:45Tim asks if she feels like a sucker looking back at those jobs.
- 6:01Guest describes doing the kind of labor "that Mexicans do that people say no one wants to do."
- 6:20The guy running the vegetable stand sexually harassed her constantly with the same line about his wife.
- 6:31Tim compares her pre-New York life to The Grapes of Wrath.
- 6:50A wealthy man she met on Tinder while working at Whole Foods in Tribeca suggested the arrangement.
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