From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Summertime... nostalgia... memories of growing up in another time...   
   anyway, here's mine.  I grew up between Poughkeepsie, NY which is IBM   
   R&D, and East Fishkill, NY which is IBM manufacturing.  (I originally   
   wrote this for another conference, but thought it might be of some   
   slight interest here.)   
      
   Growing up in an IBM community means:   
      
   Anything IBM does makes the front page of the local paper since it   
   affects just about everyone.   
      
   There's no rush hour, just "IBM traffic".   
      
   School holidays are scheduled to coincide with IBM's.   
      
   No one asks you where your father works 'cause it's obvious.  (Mine   
   didn't, by the way.)   
      
   Your mother hangs out laundry and gets asked, "Your husband wears   
   COLORED shirts to work?"   
      
   You never have a best friend for more than four years, 'cause his/her   
   father gets transferred... again!   
      
   Your neighborhood always has at least three "For Sale" signs, for the   
   same reason.   
      
   The "Quarter Century Club" is one of the area's major social groups.   
      
   Adam, written 1987   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)