Southern Manners..when is it too much?

Hell Puppy · 04-26-2005

Ahhh hell.... I was gonna let this be, but my fingers keep twitching and wont be satisified til I reply.

Who DID show at 7:30?

Your RSVP count is off, I said in at least a couple of threads I was planning to be there. I yank your chain like I do everyone elses, that's part of the fun of a board, so it aint like the thing was being ignored over here. In fact, on a different night, I know of at least 2-3 more from Oprano who would've probably shown.

You went out of your way to reel someone in, good move. Better move is make sure someone is onsite at start time who knows what's going on and reel in the lost by phone. We do that all the time (*cough* peaches *cough*).

Why didn't we start bowling? Well, here's the thing, bowling, eating or whatever the get together is comes secondary. We're really there to socialize and talk. I woulda bowled, but that wasn't what we were there for.

I also dont like to bitch about locations....if someone wants to organize something, do it. Name the time and place, let whoever wants to show up do so. Those who dont like it, let 'em organize their own deal. *But* just to add to the above, let's just say as a non-smoking, english-speaking caucasian, I wasn't exactly comfortable. Though again had everyone been there, I would've dealt and socialized....although I might've made a call to Man & Bat, Inc. to come watch the car after dark.

Bottom line, we waited 30 minutes, gave up on everyone else, and the folkes who knew each other adjourned to another location. We came to see people we dont normally get to hang out with, once we gave up on that, no reason to stick around.

There are no hard feelings on my side....apology accepted, but not really needed as we all went and had a good time anyway.

I dont like the adversarial feelings that seem to exist here everytime one group or the other does something. It shouldn't be there. I guess we have very different tastes and maybe indeed different manners. But it's silly that we cant manage to at least once and while get all of the Atlanta webmasters together.

Heck, not to pick on 'em, but Tony404 and Mandy are perfect examples. There's some actual business networking to be done between them and myself and dickinbush potentially. And instead, I think I've only met them in passing a couple of times at what I would classify as national level events held here in Atlanta. Admittedly, that's as much my fault as their's, we just haven't ended up at the same local events.

But I'll stop before my twitch really gets going...

04-26-2005	#20
Hell Puppy Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6,523	Ahhh hell.... I was gonna let this be, but my fingers keep twitching and wont be satisified til I reply. Who DID show at 7:30? Your RSVP count is off, I said in at least a couple of threads I was planning to be there. I yank your chain like I do everyone elses, that's part of the fun of a board, so it aint like the thing was being ignored over here. In fact, on a different night, I know of at least 2-3 more from Oprano who would've probably shown. You went out of your way to reel someone in, good move. Better move is make sure someone is onsite at start time who knows what's going on and reel in the lost by phone. We do that all the time (cough peaches cough). Why didn't we start bowling? Well, here's the thing, bowling, eating or whatever the get together is comes secondary. We're really there to socialize and talk. I woulda bowled, but that wasn't what we were there for. I also dont like to bitch about locations....if someone wants to organize something, do it. Name the time and place, let whoever wants to show up do so. Those who dont like it, let 'em organize their own deal. But just to add to the above, let's just say as a non-smoking, english-speaking caucasian, I wasn't exactly comfortable. Though again had everyone been there, I would've dealt and socialized....although I might've made a call to Man & Bat, Inc. to come watch the car after dark. Bottom line, we waited 30 minutes, gave up on everyone else, and the folkes who knew each other adjourned to another location. We came to see people we dont normally get to hang out with, once we gave up on that, no reason to stick around. There are no hard feelings on my side....apology accepted, but not really needed as we all went and had a good time anyway. I dont like the adversarial feelings that seem to exist here everytime one group or the other does something. It shouldn't be there. I guess we have very different tastes and maybe indeed different manners. But it's silly that we cant manage to at least once and while get all of the Atlanta webmasters together. Heck, not to pick on 'em, but Tony404 and Mandy are perfect examples. There's some actual business networking to be done between them and myself and dickinbush potentially. And instead, I think I've only met them in passing a couple of times at what I would classify as national level events held here in Atlanta. Admittedly, that's as much my fault as their's, we just haven't ended up at the same local events. But I'll stop before my twitch really gets going...