Cuffing Season
Today is Election Day and coincidentally the start of “cuffing season”, or the season when it is decided that you won’t shiver alone. You’ll happily settle for a few months’ fling to get you through those chilly winter nights.
Perhaps that’s why the United States holds elections in November—we must have people make decisions when they’re overwhelmed by upcoming holidays, confused at why it’s getting dark so early and wanting someone to blame when whatever was promised over the next few weeks just doesn’t work out.
Regardless of who you cast the ballot for or “cuff” this season, there will be consequences.
Ishaan Jajodia explains the proper etiquette of bringing your date to the Club—and some of the consequences of not following these guidelines. This week’s Chatter episode: Tee Time for Two is brought to you by Jay Prignano. Dispatches from Clubland USA are brought to you by yours truly.—LR
So You’re Bringing A Date to the Club
With temperatures and leaves dropping, it’s time for cuffing season, where individuals oftentimes find themselves compromising their social lives for the mere pleasure of being close to someone as the sun sets early, both on their lives and the day. Cuffing season also brings to the fore the all-too-important question of dating at and within your club, and what the rules and the norms governing them ought to be.
The first is relatively obvious: by no means shall you bring a first date to a club. Never.
There’s something special and sacrosanct about the place you proudly call your second home (and occasionally pay a second mortgage’s worth for). Bringing someone on a first date to your club is glitzy, and not the good sort. It is treacherous to think about doing it only because you come off not as the well-grounded sort of chap you are. Furthermore, it makes you seem attractive transitively and attracts partners who may not look at you for who you are, but rather, for what you portray, and what you possess.
If you don’t really care about that, remember, the awkward first date is perhaps one of the most excruciating experiences you can subject your fellow club cats to. Don’t do it. No. Nah. Nada.—IJ
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Tee Time for Two
Jay Prignano, a novelist, aspiring screenwriter and member of The Players in New York City, describes his journey learning golf from country clubs in the Chicago suburbs to a birthday round with the writers of Clubland USA. In it, he discovers the best overlap between the 500-year-old game and Clubland itself.
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Dispatches from Clubland
Aspen breaks into Clubland. Aspen, Colorado—a chic resort destination popular among the billionaire types—has welcomed several new clubs, including the Kodiak Club and Club Marble, a new members only space that is slated to open in the former space of Marble Distilling, a hot spot bar. Anyone want to take a stab at how much some of these initiation fees are?
Not a daycare. The National Club Association’s latest podcast explores the babysitting myth, or the challenge of unaccompanied minors across clubs. Parents, we know that you want to encourage your little one into the habits of a fully-formed club cat. Leaving them around, however, might not be the best idea.
Another wellness club hits Palm Beach: Just in time for those winter parties and your Instagram feed being flooded with that blonde heading south, a new health and wellness club backed by two San Francisco bros is arriving to Palm Beach, per South Florida Business Journal.