carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu> (04/08/90)
In article <5807@accuvax.nwu.edu> FLINTON@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Fred E.J. Linton) writes: >In article <5746@accuvax.nwu.edu>, amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman) >writes: >> Several times now, in midtown New York City, agressive Sprint people >> have been standing behind a small silver-grey desk thing in the Sprint >> colors with lines like, "Get your phone card here! They're free!" >Same phenomenon at the weekly Sunday flea market in New Haven (CT). I was in Chicago briefly last week. While buying some Kodachrome at the U of C bookstore, I was accosted by one of Sears' aggressive card pushers, who evidently thought I was a U of C undergrad. Having accepted a Sears card from one of these people back in '79 or '80 when I was an undergrad at Northwestern, I was quite familiar with Sears' campus marketing techniques. "Hey, buddy, d'ya have a Sears card?" "Yup." And then, as I turned up the stairs: "Have an AT&T card?" Jeff Carroll carroll@atc.boeing.com