Note to Countess LuAnn de Lesseps: Celebrity Appearances Don't Count as Community Service

For the second time The Real Housewives of New York City we've been subjected to Countess LuAnn de LeDivorce's alleged (and I stress alleged) community service.

Lulu has a unique approach to cmmunity service. No cooking breakfast at the shelter; no painting walls for a Habitat for Humanity House; no pulling shifts at the Human society. Lulu's approach to community service, you see, doesn't involve any actual work.

Following the spirit of Marie Antoniette, and the French royal line that she can credit for her 'Countess' title, she apparently believes that simply gracing the poor with her presence constitutes community service.

Lulu refers to it as 'mentoring', but to be fair to all the volunteers who actually do mentor, it's important to clarify that mentoring involves imparting an actual skill or ability to the mentee, it's not just an hour long ego pick-me-up session where you gloat to the less fortunate.

Her first 'mentoring' gig involved helping a recovering addict pracice interviewing for an office job, which of course would have been great if she had any meaningful experience with office jobs.

The second attempt at 'mentoring' young girls was about as bad. Note to Lulu, if you need an ego-enhancing hour telling the less fortunate how great your life turned out, so be it. But for god sakes don't call that community service. And consider therapy as an alternative. If youre ego needs that much feeding, chances are you need it.