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Like here on the Cape I am sure up there in Vermont you have a place where the rich are concentrated in highere numbers because the place is so nice and money also breeds arrogance towards the locals because of the money these people spend on thier waterfront or mountainside homes.
I remember a funny story told to me by a local shellfishermen that works the Bass River area of Yarmouth. One Sunday morning he was working the edge of the river in front of an enormous new house that was newly built on the river. Now this guy had worked the river for 30 years and no one had ever bothered him as this was his way of making a living.
The new owners had just moved in and as he had his pump going in the skiff out comes this woman with her husband out on the dock and she starts yelling at him because apparently the pump in his boat was annoying them. The woman was screaming at him about how much it cost to build the house and how dare he run the pump in his boat at 7 in the morning in front of thier new house and she was going to call the police. The woman kept demanding that he stop but he kept on working as he knew he was in his rights. Finally she screamed, "don't you hear me? What the hell do you think you are doing here! And with that, friend shut the pump off and lookled up at her from his skiff and simply stated, "Mam, I am trying to make a living", whereupon she spun around on the dock called her husband to follow her ( he never said a word) and stormed up the dock to the house.
Minutes later the Dennis police arrived. They never came to speak to the shellfisherman at all. They talked with the woman and her husband and then left. All my friend could hear was the woman screaming in the house about this can't be and some such like that and with that he went on with his work. Money, ugh!
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