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01-06-03 01:43 PM  
poohlover Tiggergirl wrote:

I guess it was the fact that, rather than answer my question, or say "I don't know", you asked me how I had found this website.

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It's not that unusual for people to be out of touch for awhile, and it doesn't make them suddenly Web incompetent. I can still find my way around! Ha!

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I asked how she found this website because I was truly curious. I was running in and out yesterday and did not feel like taking the time to answer her question in depth. I figured someone else might.

I am sorry if I came off rude. As I said I am not the welcoming committee. I did not intend to come off rude. In my experience, it is not unusual on a message board for the first reponse to a question to be another question or tangentially related comment rather than an answer.

I certainly did not mean to suggest that she was web incompetent. I truly did not know if this site would come up in a web search. Her answer was a pleasant surprise.

Of course I was also suspicious that she may have come to stir things up, but I was then, as now, assuming the best.

I apologize for any real or perceived rudeness or lack of welcome.

I will point out that I am the one and only person who asked how she found the site, so, that should not lead to any broad conclusions about the members of common ground.
01-06-03 05:44 PM  
Lunarlady Ah poohlover...

(punches her on the shoulder, but not too hard)

fuggedabodit! I'm sure you didn't mean to come off as rude. I never took you as being rude anyway, but then again it would take more than a simple question to offend me.

Time has proven out that this stranger merely doesn't have any interest. How would you have felt if you'd dropped important matters to produce a summation of a James Michner (sp?) novel only to find out that the person wasn't all that interested in the first place?

The "Where did you get this link" is a valid question, but (to me) I don't really care how people got a link. I only care about how they comport themselves on a BB.

In real life, someone coming into a room and bringing up a question about an argument that happened 1/2 hour ago and has since died down (the the mutual agreement of all people in the room) is bad enough. But to barge into a room and INSIST that people re-hash the argument, then use psychology (Oh, I guess you guys DON'T know) is insulting.

For me the answer is clear: Tiggergirl has stated her priorities:

I am just not interested enough, nor do I have the time, to read the archives. Thanks anyway!

I am going to sign off and go do something I should have been doing, like finish painting my living room!


I propose we also keep our priorities straight and continue pursuing OUR lives as well. This was apparently a "smoke break" question and the person has returned from whence she came. I say write it off and keep on with our regularly scheduled programming.

As always, JMO.
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