wha-? how many bathrooms, you bitches?

"It's rare for sisters to be so close, like best — " Lindsay had almost completed her thought when Ali broke in.

"Nobody is lacking," she started to say.

"At least nobody is a nerd," Jessica concluded triumphantly.

Certainly not. The triplets were home that night from new jobs — Jessica works for Sola, a fashion accessories showroom, Lindsay for the clothing store Intermix, and Ali is a page at "The Late Show With David Letterman." They are well into their second month in the apartment, the search for which sounds like the pitch for a new reality television show: Can triplets, a boyfriend or two, and their parents find the perfect apartment?

"It had to have three bedrooms, three bathrooms, pass the lobby and hall test — Ali and Lindsay had a thing about lobbies and halls — and not be on a two-way street, because Lindsay doesn't like two-way streets," said Doug Kenner, a rental and sales broker at Citi Habitats. "It had to have a doorman, rent for around $4,000 and be in a building that would accept guarantors. From the first showing, which Jessica liked but Lindsay didn't, I realized I had a fun group."

No, they do not sound fun. "Certainly not," though, just conjures a stiff-lipped journalist, listening to them go yah-blah-yah-sorority-Miami-Arizona and pretending to take notes but instead furiously drawing bullets trailed by dashes, heading towards coiffed-with-upside-down-Vs stick figure triplets. Occasionally, the reporter writes an observation or speech balloon: not nerds, unlike those journalism majors! … concluded triumphantly … Certainly not! … [full article]

Posted by nchicha at January 26, 2004 03:36 PM