job/school questions

[lupinesque]

Kimberly wrote:

> Sadly I can't comment on the British, but I had to laugh about 
> the 'where'd you go to college' thing.  I'm from St. Louis, and the 
> joke there is that when you meet other St. Louisans, someone's bound 
> to ask (and in large part for the same reason, I imagine), 'Where'd 
> you go to high school?'  It's something St. Louisans are known for, 
> and somewhat embarrassingly provincial.  You wouldn't get around to 
> establishing where someone went to college until after that.

Well, if I were from someplace as big as St. Louis, and I met someone 
else from there--i.e., if we were both living somewhere else--I'd ask 
that too.  (There was only one public high school in my hometown, so 
it would be a silly question.)

The funny thing about asking where someone went to college is that the 
chances of your both having gone to the same place are so small that 
the motivation for asking can't be a realistic hope of swapping 
college stories.  So why ask?  Snobbery, says I.  

Amy
hailing from the land of the snobs