“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in his seminal classic, The Great Gatsby. “They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”

Thus, to many of us, it can be perplexing that some people might contemplate going under the knife so that they might endure the drive from Manhattan to their Hamptons home without being inconvenienced by the need for bathroom stops. //

To combat “Hamptons bladder,” New Yorkers who summer in the exclusive Long Island enclave are seeking a pair of specialized medical procedures: prostate artery embolization, which reduces the size of the prostate in men, and “bladder Botox,” which decreases urinary frequency for women.

“A lot of people have problems with this issue. They come out to the Hamptons and have to stop four or five times on the way, but can’t find a restroom,” said Dr. David Shusterman, a New York City urologist who’s been advertising the procedures with the tagline “Race to the Hamptons, not to the bathroom.” //

Clearly, the old Gatorade bottle isn’t going to be an option for such fine folk. “They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves,” wrote Fitzgerald. “Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us” — for example, when they really, really have to go and there’s nowhere convenient or acceptable — “they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.” //

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Don't drink alcohol all day, especially close to bed.

Also, about 80% of Americans don't get enough potassium and eat too much salt throwing off the balance. It should be 4 to 1 potassium to sodium, and most people have it the reverse in the USA. Which causes your bladder to not empy well enough in the day and then when your put your feet up after going to bed...

So here's the bargain version of that treatment:

Stop drinking alcohol so much, instead get a job so you're too busy to drink all day.

Stop eating so much salt.

Eat more brocolli and salads and other green stuff.

Also, let me tell you, I know quite a few wealthy people and almost every one of them with few exceptions will opt for surgery for things you can fix with diet and exercise. It seems insane to me.