PITTSBURGH TO LEBANON: Outtakes and deleted scenes

I spent one of my days in Nashville doing interviews where one of my study participants told me that Al Gore lived down the street. The interviews ended early in the afternoon, and because I was meeting Allison for dinner later that night I went to a coffee shop by Vanderbilt University to get some work done before Allison got off work. Though I was excited to not be hanging out in my hotel room I did wonder how I would be received. I was wearing my black pinstriped suit, carrying my computer in my rolling computer bag. Usually wearing a suit and tie makes the statement that you are a responsible and productive member of society, someone who is as comfortable closing a business deal as he is making small talk about last night's episode of "Deal or No Deal" over cocktails and apps (write me & I'll tell you a place with some killer apps and happy hour specials). It didn't work out like that...those dirty hippies thought I was a narc or something. It was weird because pin stripe suits typically put people at ease, kind of like smooth jazz, but the people at the coffee shop were somewhat offput by The Man. They were probably paranoid from some shitty reefer.