Re: AMA wants stinkwheels?

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:56:04 -0800 (PST), Craig <googlegroupmail@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Dec 24, 3:54 pm, Mike W. <outof...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How long since the previous biz flight? More than 4 weeks? Sorry... doesn't
count. 2 weeks? I'll buy.

Two weeks. And it was the end of one of my worst days of flying ever.
Being that I work for a non-profit (if I told you what we did, your
head would probably explode), my company is cheap. Cheap means
connections instead of direct and sitting in the cheap seats. I'd been
doing the airport thing for 12 hours at that point, all for less than
four hours of actual flying. I was tired and cranky too, and really
wanted to get some peace and quiet. My first thought was to be
unpleasant, but I think my choice really made the trip better for all
involved. The post-kid me is kinder and gentler.

Whatever you do is the right answer for you. You might note if you choose
that no place am I suggesting the victim of the slob-enabling become an
*** just because the moment grants them some sort of cosmic permission.
When the little fucker I referred to earlier puked on my breakfast, some
would say I was initially gracious.. but the standard of behavior was not
what I paid an extra $1200 for yes I was mad at her and the existence of
the trend and yes, I asked her at some point if Greyhound had a bus that
was headed to our destination.

When I land and the work isn't done, I'm not just getting fucked out of the
extra faire but it detracts from the reason I'm in the plane in the first
place. THIS was THE STANDARD we have come to expect in that cabin, and for
that matter, in the forward part of the aft cabin for a LONG time. Hmmm...
Norton just caught a "downloader virus" while I was typing this. There is
NO upside to the trend of falling standards.


But you're right, I don't fly anywhere near as much as you do and I
don't work as hard as you do. I put in an honest 40-45 hour work week
and spend the rest of my time enjoying my life. It works for me.

You just aren't up there enough to see the problem that was described, and
that's a standard problem in lots of these conversations... people not
having the context to form a credible opinion, but still forging them
anyway.

I just looked back at my post, and all I did was tell a little story
about a flight I took, and question whether or not your kid may have
ever caused someone else stress in public. Clearly I was fishing a
little bit, but I'm pretty surprised at the venom in your replies.
It's nice to know exactly where I stand.

Craig... I crapped on you lecturing me about my reaction to the soaring
slob factor. To clarify that, I crapped on your point... not you. I assumed
you made a mistake and I addressed that with exactly the same language in
exactly the same tone I would people in here who call me a friend. If you
took my correcting your error (I'm an ***... deal with it) as personal,
then you have my sincere apology. You've been a positive contributor for a
long time on RMD and I have no reason or desire to offend you for what I
see as a mistake.

The strong level of my feelings about certain matters... what you call
venom.. was, clearly I think, directed at the things I am massively
passionate towards... the unstoppable meteoric rise of the slob and the
impact of that on the early adopters. The unprincipled ***
progressives/liberals that are all about stealing my ***. I don't see you
in either of those categories and you didn't see a drop of venom directed
at you.


You want slob-enabled, you got RMD Today....

For future reference, could we maybe get a list of the three or four
people that you deem worthy?

Don't get whiney... kick my ass or shut the *** up:):):):):)

For the record, I think RMD is flatlined. I got sucked in to defend a
friend (something RMD sucks massively at) and I continue to read it for
social reasons.. I still have a couple of friends that haven't left. It's
not for the "great reads". It's a shadow of what it was and I attribute
that to the SE process.

Mike


Craig


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