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Just from walking around campus on the colder days of this winter thus far:
Maybe New Englanders got a reputation for being short on words and unfriendly because it's both hard to have a conversation between muffling scarves on the mouth and muffling hats and sometimes scarves and ear-muffs on the ears, and because you can't see someone smiling at you when they have a scarf covering all of their faces but their eyes.
That was my rationalization of the day.
Maybe New Englanders got a reputation for being short on words and unfriendly because it's both hard to have a conversation between muffling scarves on the mouth and muffling hats and sometimes scarves and ear-muffs on the ears, and because you can't see someone smiling at you when they have a scarf covering all of their faces but their eyes.
That was my rationalization of the day.