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Nothing for thanks

UnrepentantSinner

A post by Alan Smithee
UnrepentantSinner
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I'm helping a few of people more fully enjoy their TAM 7 experience and here's how you may thank me:

Required
- Show up
- Enjoy yourself

Optional
- If so inclined, and you see me in the hallway or across the room, a wink, nod or wave would be appreciated, but don't feel like you owe it to me. I know what you all look like and just seeing you there will be more than enough thanks for me. :)

Any other helpers feel the same way?
 
If I helped you in any way (extremely unlikely), I really only did it so I would have more people to push off balconies. I ask nothing in return but that you try to hang out on balconies, especially if you see me.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
I'm helping a few of people more fully enjoy their TAM 7 experience and here's how you may thank me:

Required
- Show up
- Enjoy yourself

Optional
- If so inclined, and you see me in the hallway or across the room, a wink, nod or wave would be appreciated, but don't feel like you owe it to me. I know what you all look like and just seeing you there will be more than enough thanks for me. :)

Any other helpers feel the same way?
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So I can't hug you then?

Marquis de Carabas said:
If I helped you in any way (extremely unlikely), I really only did it so I would have more people to push off balconies. I ask nothing in return but that you try to hang out on balconies, especially if you see me.
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...I need a new roommate.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
I'm helping a few of people more fully enjoy their TAM 7 experience and here's how you may thank me:

Required
- Show up
- Enjoy yourself

Optional
- If so inclined, and you see me in the hallway or across the room, a wink, nod or wave would be appreciated, but don't feel like you owe it to me. I know what you all look like and just seeing you there will be more than enough thanks for me. :)

Any other helpers feel the same way?
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Pretty much the URS's Required list will do for me, a optional hug is permitted, but don't overdo it....me back ain't what it used to be.....;)
 
I don't want to sound like a dink (which means I will be sounding like a dink), but this kind of thing has always made me uncomfortable. I definitely do not believe that thanks should be an obligation, but I will always cheerfully accept thanks for something that deserves such. To pre-reject any type of thanks always sounds a bit ungrateful on the part of the donor, or in some cases, even condescending.

US, I am not saying that you or Hutch are necessarily being like this, I know the two of you, but especially in a text-based medium amongst strangers, it can have that tone.

Personally, I prefer to leave everything up to the donee and not say anything in advance. I will never expect anyone to offer me anything in exchange for my help, but I will never turn down a "thank you". Maybe it is just my upbringing, but any gift to me should get some kind of response, even if it is just a hand-written note saying "thanks". It probably doesn't help that I live in a place where omiyage is a tradition imported from Japan that stuck.
 
oh yeah US you don't want THANKS for all those wonderful things you have done for ME!

Yeah THANKS for the tequilas. Thanks, if I remembered what happened after the second tequila shot I'd thank you.

Oh and your offer "hmm, Kitty you want to go on the zip line?"

me "Sure, hey what's a zip line?"

ohhh I soon learned what a zip line was....

thanks!!
 
Hokulele said:
I don't want to sound like a dink (which means I will be sounding like a dink), but this kind of thing has always made me uncomfortable. I definitely do not believe that thanks should be an obligation, but I will always cheerfully accept thanks for something that deserves such. To pre-reject any type of thanks always sounds a bit ungrateful on the part of the donor, or in some cases, even condescending.

US, I am not saying that you or Hutch are necessarily being like this, I know the two of you, but especially in a text-based medium amongst strangers, it can have that tone.

Personally, I prefer to leave everything up to the donee and not say anything in advance. I will never expect anyone to offer me anything in exchange for my help, but I will never turn down a "thank you". Maybe it is just my upbringing, but any gift to me should get some kind of response, even if it is just a hand-written note saying "thanks". It probably doesn't help that I live in a place where omiyage is a tradition imported from Japan that stuck.
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OK, Hoke (I mean dink), I need to expand more fully.

I do not have a big ego, but it is a modest and healthy one and if the folks I've helped want to give me a big thank you and a hug, I for one won't be turning them down. And if Jeff/Paul asks people who donated to the Scholarship program to stand up or mentions me by name, I'll blush but I'll stand.

However, whatever one thinks of me on the Forum, in real life I tend to be a private person, and uncomfortable at times with group settings (i.e., I've always gone to the Forum party, but I seldom was there more than 45 minutes). Those who I have helped out (and I think you probably know who you are) are not obligated to stick with me 24/7 or sing my praises to all and sundry (that's the Marquis' act, anyway). In other words, making a big fuss or looking for me everywhere to is more likely to disconcert me than flatter me. What I did, I did because I could and because I wanted to.

You are there to (1) Attend TAM (2) Meet as many Forumites and other skeptics as possible (3) Have a ball. You don't have to worry about ol'Hutch; he can manage alright.

Hope that helps--or Hoke will be trying to sneak wasabi sauce on my cheeseburger...:eek:
 
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