,,, I can spot em' from a mile away

Several years ago, I had a second job at a shoe store chain. I had a chance to work with some great people there. One of them was the assistant store manager.

One day, some short creekers (short term for FLDS fundamentalist from Short Creek) came into our store. The assistant store manager casually walks over next to me at the cash register and says, " Those are polygamists."

"Really? Do you think?"

"Oh yeah, they always have long sleeves and they don't use cell phones!"

"They don't use cell phones?"

"Nope, it's against their religion or something"

"Wow, good to know."

"Yeah, I can spot em' from a mile away."

Not all fundamentalists wear long sleeves, although there are some groups with distinctive dress and grooming. I always wear long sleeves but I dress fashion forward. No group or independents I know have an injunction against cell phones, so I was mystified as to where the assistant manager had heard that one. Funny enough, I had never owned a cell phone in my life up to that point. The irony of this dialogue came a couple minutes later after the assistant manager had gone to the back of the store -- one of the mothers answered a cell phone.