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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: check guarantee cards
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 13:22:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 13:22:37 1986
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Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
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>New England - bah! A rather clannish section of
>the country that regards all strangers with distrust and depends
>little on out of state business.

Wait a second -- I grew up in New England! I lived the first part of my life
in Southern Massachusetts, right next to Rhode Island, then moved to New
Hampshire, and then a bit over to the border with Maine. My sister goes to
school in Vermont, so I know a bit about New England.

Where do you get your ideas about New Englanders? I moved from New Hampshire
to California, and I've never met such an unfriendly and uninviting set of
people in my entire life. Give me New England any day. I'd move back if I
could.

Tourism is one of New England's largest sources of income, especially Northern
New England. We're desperate for out of state business. And you'd be
surprised at the number of Florida license plates we see.

It wasn't until I moved to California that I found that unless you had a credit
card of some sort, cash was the best way of doing business. Imagine my shock
when I found that even local checks were rarely accepted unless I had some
plastic, a license, and preferably some other sort of ID as well. In New
Hampshire, only malls really required all that ID.

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Bruce Holloway

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(I'm not THAT Bruce Holloway, I'm the other one.)