Look how tacky the were.... the woman overly tanned, wrinkled and saggy, none of them properly lifted or botoxed.
Bettina Ortiz Y Mena was not accustomed to waiting. A former Miss Venezuela and Miss Universe runner- up, of course, the exceedingly bronzed strawberry blond was these days the wife of Miami auto parts tycoon, Herman Ortiz Mena and at every restaurant she chose to grace with her presence , she was always greeted with reverence and whisked to the exact table she desired.
. Why did such people have to come here?
Today she wanted the corner table on the terrace at Sip Sip, her favorite lunch spot on Harbor Island . She wanted to sit one of the comfy orange canvas director's chairs and stare out at the gently lapping turquoise waters while eating her Kale Caesar salad.
Tourists should have to take a style exambefore being allowed to set foot on the Island!
But there was a large noisy group taking up the entire terrace and they didn't seem in much hurry to leave. Bettina fumed as she glared at the tourists happily savoring their lunch in the sun.
“Sorry, Bettina, it’s been one of those days. The party of twelve on the terrace showed up first just before you did,
“Julie, honey, what’s the dealio? I’ve waited more than fifteen minutes for my table!”
She felt like walking up to their table and handing out her dermatologist’s business cards. And the men were even worse. All dressed in all rumpled shirts and shorts, wearing those cheap straw hats sold at the trinket shot on Dunmore Street.
The three-and-a-half-mile-long paradise with its pristine pink-Sandbeaches was one of the best-kept secrets in the Caribbean, a haven for the very rich filled with quaint little wood houses painted in shades of sherbet, charmin boutiques, chic oceanfront mansions turned into inns, and five-star restaurants to rival St. Barths.
Feeling that she had been patient long enough, Bettina stormed into the kitchen, the fringe on her crocheted Pucci caftan top shaking furiously as she made a beeline for the woman with a shock of pixie-cut blond hair manning the main stove.