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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
This reminds me of a deal I was on where, for whatever reason, a bunch of the lawyers on the other side were Mormon. Anyhow, when meetings convened at our offices, I put in a request for herbal teas to be provided with all coffee services. The head partner on the deal asked "why all these fancy teas?" After reassuring him that the client was not being billed any more than for the regular tea we would have provided anyway, I explained that I strongly suspected the other lawyers were Mormon, and in that case couldn't have coffee or regular teas, decaf or not.

The partner then got really weird (can't explain how, he just seemed really freaked out) and asked what made me think they were Mormons. I nearly said "um, the fact that they're well scrubbed, polite and happy all the time?" but instead said "besides the fact that they all seem to have more than 5 kids, several of them have talked about spending their missions in 3rd world countries, one's been explaining geneology resources to his client during down time, and not one has touched a drop of coffee, tea or cola during any of the all-nighters so even if they aren't Mormon it's polite to put out something they might like."

Sure enough, a couple of them started drinking the herbal teas (though a lot of Mormons I know are so used to avoiding all the regular hot beverages that they don't drink herbal teas, either), and the partner watched them bug-eyed for the rest of the deal like he thought they might sprout horns any second. He also seemed really suspicious of the fact that I apparently knew enough about Mormons not just to identify them but to think to adjust to their dietary requirements. North-easterners can be really weird about Mormons, and I dunno why. They weren't that uncommon in the section of the Patch I'm from (a few relations even converted), but a good number of native Yankees I've known seem not just to think they're exotic but to be really freaked out by them.

Hey, speak for your own damn yankees. In Massachusetts, we elected one Governor.

See, Mass. voters are very open minded even when they do dumb shit.