Real Housewives

BravoTV is full of the Real Housewives shows, and the original one is Real Housewives of Orange County. That's the only one I still watch, and I caught up with it yesterday afternoon. The O.C. ladies went to a spinning class in the episode I watched.

So when I hauled out of bed at 5:10 a.m. this morning and got to my very own spinning class, I couldn't help but think back to the O.C. ladies in contrast to the housewives in the W.G. What a great juxtaposition! Why isn't there a Real Housewives of Webster Groves?????

Mismatched shorts and T-shirts vs. exercise togs from Rodeo Drive? The spinning bikes with missing knobs at the slightly grungy YMCA vs. the state of the art bikes in a pristine private club? The refillable free water bottles from our local bike store vs. bottles of Evian? The red, sweaty, make-up free faces vs. the Botoxed and expertly made-up faces?

Come to that - how about housewives going to their weekly book club instead of a LaPerla lingerie buying party? Moms carting their offspring to daycare instead of asking the nanny to get the cereal in the bowl? Women who are running the after school Girl Scout Troop meeting instead of watching the dressage lesson at the stable? How about showing up at the Habitat for Humanity work day instead of the fancy dress party for the symphony?

Actually I don't have any problem with any of the O.C. ladies' activities, and they are lucky enough to have the money to do all the things they enjoy. I'm just saying, we are living the high life here in the W.G., too, and it's all good.