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"  1. Apply for membership at a venerable old country club which demands sponsorship from five members of at least five years&amp;#039; standing and has not accepted a new candidate for at least five years. If your application is approved, proceed immediately to Step 19. You have already won this game. 2. Attend your college reunion. Take one-half step up for each former classmate you meet who asks for your autograph; one-half step up for each former classmate who insists on buying your drinks; one full step up for each former classmate who tries to borrow $500 until next month. (Editor&amp;#039;s note: monetary values have not been adjusted for inflation.) 3. Advertise in the New York Times to unload your properties. One step up if they include a cattle farm in Dutchess County. Two for a townhouse in London. Take two steps down for a penthouse in New York. (Common as toothbrushes; everyone, but everyone, has one.) 4. In anticipation of your arrival, send a case of the best champagne to your hostess for the weekend. One step up if you yourself never drink champagne. One step down if your hostess never drinks champagne. If you drink most of the champagne by Sunday, take six steps down\u2014and apologize. You should be ashamed of yourself! 5. Does your winter living room in the city look like a summer greenhouse in the country? One step up. Take one more for each shrub of tree still in full bloom on or after December 25. Does your country living room in summer look like a Victorian parlor in winter? Take two steps down and announce an auction sale immediately. 6. Examine your own responses to playing this game. Three steps up if you couldn&amp;#039;t care less\u2014scoring socially is just not your style. Then stop playing and instead, play: (a) chess, (b) the stock market, (c) kissing games. 7. Move into a high-rise apartment building, above the 25th floor, on the Gold Coast of any great American city. If you have a Great Dane so big he rides alone to the lobby, one step up. If you have a Pekingese that you cuddle in your arms, two steps down. If you own no dog but just a tank of fish, switch to the suburbs. You don&amp;#039;t belong in town. 8. What time do you commute to town? Earlier than 9:17, return immediately to Step 1. Later than 10:22, see your doctor. If you drive no more than three times a week via chauffeured limo, you have already made it. Do not continue to play this game. 9. Is your station car a beatup Ferrari, suffering from intelligent neglect? Two steps up. Is it a 1970 Dodge station wagon, chauffeured by wife in morning wrapper? Three steps down. 10. Give a party. Take one step down for every guest with a face so unrecognizable to others that he has to be introduced by his full name, occupation, and place of residence. 11. Commission Billy Baldwin to design your daughter&amp;#039;s college dormitory. Two steps down for each Portuguese needlepoint rug. Five steps up if Billy builds in the stereo. 12. On Saturday night, slip a $10 bill to your maitre d&amp;#039; at your favorite restaurant. If he returns it deferentially, two steps up. And if he seats you at the best table in the house anyhow, three more steps up. 13. Do not display your Christmas cards this year, except those that come from any office in the White House. 14. Fly your son&amp;#039;s entire class to Disneyland for his 10th birthday. One step up for every jaded child who has been there at least three times previously. 15. Count the credit cards in your Gucci wallet. Two steps down if you finish counting within five minutes. One step up if you carry only one: American Express. (No advertisement.) 16. Note every magazine to which you currently subscribe. One step up for: Partisan Review, Intellectual Digest. Two steps up for: Harper&amp;#039;s Bazaar, Vogue. Six steps up for: Town&amp;amp;amp;Country. 17. Put down the names of each person who has tried to seduce you within the past six months. If you are a woman, one step up for each best-selling author, state senator, or star athlete. If you are a man, one step down for each divorcee, kindergarten teacher, or happy hooker. If your list has more than six names on it, go down four steps. It is totally inelegant to look so available. 18. Is your current psychotherapist: (a) a Freudian psychoanalyst with whom you&amp;#039;ve been in treatment three years or more? (b) German? (c) female? (d) sexually aggressive? Two steps down if (a) or (b). Two steps up if (c). If (d), call the police. 19. You&amp;#039;re into scentsitivity games. Step down five for every sachet you still have in your house. If someone mentions Chanel and you respond &amp;quot;No. 19,&amp;quot; step up nine. Dab some at the base of your throat. If he doesn&amp;#039;t notice, drop him. The man has no imagination. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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