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Article #3212Re: Jeff Ullman/Great Expectations in last Sunday's Times
From: Lon Stowell
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 23:09
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 23:09
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In article <1994Feb1.141508.1@pitvax.pitzer.edu> dhosek@pitvax.pitzer.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
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>> What was the big deal about insisting on a meeting in your home
>> anyway? They called me and absolutely insisted that I couldn't
>> just drop by their local office...that they absolutely HAD to
>> do an in-home interview.
>
>> What were they doing, casing the place for burglary, or just
>> trying in a sneaky way to compute my income from my furnishings?
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>My guess is that it's an attempt to help weed out people who are
>married.
>
That could have been it, but considering the morals exhibited
in their sales presentations, I'd be more likely to suspect that
they WERE casing the joint. >:-)
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