[2033] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
[Mit-talk] Funny Story (I hope) Re: [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne Hunter)
Fri Jul 7 15:39:01 2006
From: Anne Hunter <anneh@eecs.mit.edu>
To: faber@alum.mit.edu
In-reply-to: <e9cc53d60607070954g5790e228q5a54ba5e2d655efb@mail.gmail.com>
(faber@alum.mit.edu)
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:32:47 -0400
Cc: thepeach@mit.edu, mit-talk@mit.edu, gkenney@mit.edu, dheera@mit.edu
Reply-To: anneh@eecs.mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
I'm here lurking but I have no theory about this project, let alone a
defense of it.
This plan reminds me of an incident my freshman year at Vassar, when a
whole batch (like maybe fifteen) Princeton guys (strangers to me) who
were staying in my dorm for the weekend, trying to pick up Vassar
women, approached me at breakfast on Sunday and asked me to buy them
breakfast in the dorm dining room on my ID card (you couldn't pay cash
or other credit cards). Such charges had to be billed to one's
parents; I was a bit concerned as I couldn't imagine what my father
would think of a charge for 15 guest breakfasts on the same Sunday
morning, but they were pretty insistant, and clearly starving. I
charged their meals, and the guys naturally paid me the $3 each for
their breakfasts.
The next year I found out from a fellow student that some of the other
Vassar women present at that breakfast noticed these guys paying me
cash (presumably they couldn't tell how little it was) and made a
truly bizarre assumption about what services they were all paying me for!
Oddly enough, Vassar never billed me for any breakfasts for that
morning -- months later I checked the bill sent to my father.
Anne Hunter
_______________________________________________
MIT-talk mailing list
MIT-talk@mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mit-talk
