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[Dave]

What I want to know is how did Deb start this thread tomorrow?  Then all 
the assume replys were today....  My head hurts.

Dave


On 01/14/2011 05:08 PM, deb wrote:
> OK, just a moment out of the free-for-all bashing and point-counter-point.
> I am a big fan of Joe Campbell. We sort of swing the same way in 
> politics and opinions. He's also a darn nice guy. Sometimes I want him 
> to calm down a bit, but sometimes he probably wants me to just shut 
> up. OK.
> I have not been a big fan of Gary Crabtree, but I have never met him 
> in person, so all I had to go on were his postings on V2020. I seldo 
> (well, almost never) agree with a darn thing he has to say. I had no 
> idea if he was a nice guy or a total asshat, but I knew he was not on 
> my page, and probably was in anentirely different book. OK.
> About 4:15 today, I foolishly locked my keys in my car. The spare key 
> was at home. My partner was not. What to do? Call the Locksmith! As I 
> was downtown, I went to Gary's Lockshop--fortunately, he was there. He 
> drove me back to my car, quickly and efficiently got it open, I 
> retrieved my keys from the front seat where they had fallen from my 
> very shallow front pocket just as I slammed the (locked) door, he 
> drove me back to the Lockshop so I could pay him the (reasonable) $40 
> with the credit card I had cleverly left in my handbag in the locked 
> car. I was thanking him all the way, as I had things to do, and could 
> still do them!
> When Gary saw the card, my name registered with him. He made a comment 
> about me posting negatively about him on the V---I said something 
> about not remembering saying anything about him personally (though, 
> Goddess knows I probably have!). He made me a spare key and gave me a 
> magnet for it (no extra charge) and took me back to my car.
> We shook hands, said we were glad to meet one another in person, and 
> both got on with our day. OK.
> Just a reminder to me, and I hope to everyone out there. We can 
> disagree, we can be nasty to one another, we can hold radically 
> different opinions. At the end of the day, Gary got me into my car, 
> and I owe him some organic veggies (at a reasonable price!). We are 
> still a community, win lose or draw. Maybe we can stop hacking at each 
> other on a personal level once in a while? Criticism, contention, 
> refutation, debate----all fine. Let's just try to keep the personal 
> insults to a minimum. Just because we disagree doesn't mean either one 
> of us is evil.....
>
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