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Sneaking Beignets at an Exclusive Private Creative Club

from You Can't Have Everything · #50

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4 min

Tim describes crashing a members-only four-floor townhouse club with a grifter friend, eating free beignets while creatives work on MacBooks, and fantasizing about infiltrating Bergdorf Goodman and other rich Instagram spaces.

In this bit8 moments
  • 15:51Tim has been attending a private creative club in New York with a wealthy friend who is also a grifter.
  • 16:10The club hosts game nights and life drawing sessions with naked models.
  • 16:27Tim spends his time at the club eating fresh beignets while creative professionals work at their laptops.
  • 16:58The beignets cost eight dollars for four large ones, and Tim eats so many he gets powder all over himself, disgusting the other members.
  • 17:21Tim suggests these private clubs are now desperate for members because Instagram has replaced them as the place for wealthy people to connect.
  • 17:51Tim proposes bringing his friend to the club and repeatedly stuffing him with beignets to provoke member complaints.
  • 18:15Tim wants to infiltrate Bergdorf Goodman and take Instagram pictures pretending to be rich by posing with store objects.
  • 18:57The real appeal of private clubs is simply that other people cannot go there.
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