Middle Class Observer Pillows

'Makes you look slimmer.'

I was thinking about the implications of your brave effort last week to unionize. I didn't really. I was role-playing. Whatever. Do you realize the demise of unions has coincided with a massive decline in the middle class? What? I'm helping chickens cross a road on my iPhone. I'm taking about the income gap! Talkin' 'Bout the Income Gap is sponsored by: The makers of signs, placards, and other protest equipment.

"And what do you think of the government's record on housing?"

"Can't we just go after sailfish...?"

After thirty years of hard work, Tom was beginning to get a little upset with the ball and chain forced upon him.

A Balanced budget.

'I think it's nice for kids to have wooden toys.'

"I'll have the duck Poussin."

Yesh Atid

"Our marriage has been renewed for another season."

'Our clientele is middle class; you know, your average Joe-750ml.'

The Recovery

"This is not the sort of America I envisioned, Tom-an America in which the middle class has to use public transportation."

"We're going to be late for the awkwardly standing around."

The most sought after profession in 2010 is stressed out, middle class, soccer mom on medical marijuana.

'Of course I get annoyed when people walk past and stare in the window. . . we're on the 18th floor!'

"I'm finally at a point where I learned I don't need to please my nutritionist and trainer."

'Gosh, look mummy, a shampoo named after us!'

Economic Crisis

UpperLower Class Pastimes

Hire car is overtaken and dominated by 4x4 'Higher car'.

Workers and Managers Demonstrating for Pay.

"Give us this day our daily gluten-free sliced white ciabatta."

"Me? A bum? Why, no. I just love trains."

Scruffy looking man asking whether one should take one's hat into an evening party

'I'll call you back. I have old money on the other line and that trumps new money.'

Flunkey asking to leave because his employers keep no vehicle and he misses his carriage excercise

"I'm pulling down nearly six figures these days. Five, to be exact."

"Can't you tell? I'm a depressed and angry white working-class male."

A middle-aged mid-level executive, middle class, with a mid-size car makes a daring choice...

'Wow, and I thought my mum and dad piled on the middle-class pressure.'

"Are you back again?"

'And this is our indoor dump...'

"A Colombard? But darling, we're the Chardonnay set!"

Bread and power