Last winter my wife bought me a thin shirt/pants combo which I sometimes sleep in on cold nights. I’m not at all sure that qualifies as “I wear pajamas.”
Regardless, “elite” has become one of those political dog-whistle words that doesn’t really mean anything anymore, and I’m not at all surprised Vance used it that way in his fraudulent memoir.
I think the closest place to me that’s not in the Pacific time zone is the southwest corner of Idaho, over 500 miles away by car. But there aren’t any bars there. I’d probably have to go around 600 miles to find a bar in the Mountain time zone.
It’s about 200 miles to the nearest change in time zone in the winter (in the summer, it’s 160 miles in the other direction), but it’s another 50 miles or so to the nearest town big enough to have a bar, and it would take more than an hour to get back to a town with a bar in my time zone, so I’d miss the second midnight anyway.
It looks like Wendover, Utah is the closest place that’s not in the Pacific time zone. That is over 500 miles away by car. I’m not sure if there are any bars in Wendover, but for my second New Years I’m sure I could drink at the Nugget Casino literally just across the state line in West Wendover, Nevada.
I don’t know if it’s a British thing, a family thing, or just me… but i’ve
always worn pajamas (or pyjamas as there known here).
I assumed everyone did, but i expect the royals wear silk pajamas.
I always wear pajamas, too. It doesn’t cost any more to wear pajamas than to not wear pajamas, they make the sheets last longer. (Or the clothes you aren’t wearing to bed, if you wear other clothes.) Or, it only costs more if you carry all your belongings around all day, which is a few people, but a lot fewer than “not elite”.
But it might be an elite habit, for all i know.
I have other elite habits like eating dinner at the kitchen table, not at the couch. And reading for pleasure.
Guess we’re elite. We eat meals in the dining room during the winter, the sunroom in the spring, and on the porch or patio during the summer. Wouldn’t dream of eating on the couch, that’d be nuts.
We also eat by candlelight on a pretty regular basis and have a no-screens rule.
I guess I’m elite, too. I wear pajamas (I hate it when my legs touch), I insist we eat dinner together at the table, and I read the newspaper.
Is it pronounced differently (like “py-” as in “python”)?
Having a sunroom, porch, and patio sounds pretty elite to me! (I don’t think of myself as elite, but having a house these days is definitely not not-elite).
I don’t have a sunroom or a dining room Mr Fancypants.
I call my sleep pants and shirts pajamas but I don’t actually buy sets of pajamas. I also sleep in a hoodie. I am always cold no matter what time of year.
I live alone and eat sandwiches at the computer. If I visit people I eat at their tables.
Just for the record, and I’m not doubting pjn’s experience: I’m British, I spell it pajamas and I don’t recall seeing it any other way.
That would be my grandparents. And my grandfather was a poultry farmer so he always showered before supper and had clothes which were for evenings with people, or he’d go straight to his pajamas.
And my parents wear pajamas, because they never heat their bedroom since the oil crisis of the early 70s. I stopped wearing pajamas when I moved in with hubby who grew up in a warm house.
Closest time zone is the UK and the flight time is just over an hour. Add in time to get to the airport, security checks, etc., it’s about 4 to 5 hours of traveling.
When the weather cooperates, we eat in the conservatory. Which is just a fancier word than sunroom / three season room / winter garden. If it’s really hot, we eat on the front patio, which is on the north side of the building.
We had wasps bugging us at lunch. When I first read that I was wondering how you keep the bugs from bugging you. We normally eat at a table and don’t have computers/phones/tablets at meals.
We do snack in front of the tv, mostly dessert-type stuff and popcorn.
Oops. I live in Switzerland. I think I got elite covered. 
The trouble with the New Years time zone thing is that I can’t go West from here (without a plane). I’d have to go East, but I’d miss midnight be two hours if I did.
Plus, it’s about a five hour drive to Idaho. So, can’t be done.
You could go east early, catch the celebration there, then head back west to get the western one on time.
(Though you’d still have to drive at least five hours to get to the eastern one; and then eventually have to drive the rest of the way back home from the western one.)
If you drive to a place close to the time zone line, you should not have to travel far at midnight to get to the other midnight.
I sometimes reuse Ziplock bags for no reason at all.
You rash, impetuous fool !