From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject:	Re: squatter or decker, you can't be both
Date:	Sat, 8 Jun 1996 01:20:43 +0100

In message <199606071304.JAA02569@*****.itribe.net>, sticks to teflon
<mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com> writes
>Actually, you could have been turned down for any number of reasons. Like
>the name "Squatter". Doesn't exactly ooze class, does it? Or the fact that
>you talk like a nutcase. Would _you_ hire someone talking about their rat?
>Now, if you said "I also have a companion who is a free spirit, and is
>willing to work with me on this" well, then I would reconsider.
>
>Jamie, that squatter is gutter trash. He's no decker, cause if he was, he
>would've made enough nuyen from a couple minor datasteals to not live on the
>streets.

Here I have to agree. Easy blew into Seattle from DFW with an empty
credstick, two sets of clothes and two firearms. She table-dances in
nightclubs so she can afford to be relaxed at meets, paying her way and
buying prospective team-mates drinks. As far as she's concerned, her
severe poverty would make her look like an amateur who couldn't get work
to most people: so she wouldn't get hired.

If you can't even afford to pretend, you must be pretty bad. And, let's
face it, if you can't stand upwind of people without causing wrinkled
noses, you're not going to be much use on many runs...

--
"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk