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Trab

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  1. I don't mind donating a little bit once in a while, but usually they just ask, if they ask at all, if they can round up to the next dollar. More often than not, you can tear off a little donation sticker that they ring through the register. I've never been hit up as you were with the RENs Rafter place.

     

    That said, I get asked all the time when I LIKE a charity on FB. Do you want to donate $384, $279, $117, or other? None, but I immediately wonder who these people might be who would donate hundreds of dollars! 

  2. Interesting read, and obviously well thought out, and introspected.

     

    My take, from an asocial, autistic spectrum, romantic gay asexual is there isn't a gay community at all, at least anywhere that I can notice. I think of a community as a group who strive towards a support or betterment of its members, and anything else is just a cluster of individuals. My example, which may well be biased by my own experiences, would be sports oriented. You have the rah rah sis boom bah supporters of a particular club, and they wear uniform costumes, fly banners, cheer together, and drink in bars or just neighbourhood game parties. NOT a community. Then you have the kids and parents and other individuals who start a league, recruit members, arrange for coaching, develop an honor system, purchase equipment and venues. TOTALLY a community. 

     

    So where do we find a gay community? We find them where there are people working to save gay lives, literally and emotionally.  GSAs, and online groups finding and distributing resources. All those bar scenes, and, in my view, many pride events (rah rah sis boom bah), and many neighbourhoods are just clusters of gay people. 

     

    It doesn't bother me, much, except I dislike the self deception so many enjoy in thinking that just being in a cluster makes them a member of a community. If the chips are down, and you need help, will those others help you? In a community they will. Judge carefully. Your wellbeing may depend on it. 

  3. Hey, I didn't say I was doing well, just that I'm happy. Sadly, I've got very bad arthritis in my knees, making it hard to walk very far. It's not stopping me from going out exploring back roads, but I have a satellite phone with me in case my SUV breaks and I cannot walk out. Truth be told, I also have InReach, and Global's Gen3. In other words, three independent satellite based ways to get help. I've only used the sat phone to call for help after coming across a broken down motorcycle and rider. Some 70 miles off the beaten track in Death Valley. He had no water and nobody had come by in 8 hours of waiting for help. Talk about a happy rider when I came along. With no cell service, he expressed scepticism when I told him I'd call for a tow truck to get him. Yeah for technology. 

  4. I have to sympathize. I've had my own run-in with administrative crappola just recently. I've been working on setting up a web page and I needed someone to host it. I thought I'd try the one being used by one of the local clubs. It all looked really good on their webpage. Good rates, good service, good software. I could register online with my credit card and be up and running in 10 minutes, to maybe 10 hours if the system was slow. Very cool. I get the receipt for the money all printed, then wait.2 days later, I start to worry, so I phone their toll free phone line. After 20 minutes of being reassured that my call was very important to them, I got a message, "Leave your number and we'll call you back." Nice. Very soothing a smooth. Not even a thank-you. Of course I never left my number, I emailed them instead.The response was 110% less than reassuring. Due to an error on their end, they wanted me to photocopy the front and back of my Visa Card, and authorize them to make all required deductions before they could proceed. Oh yes, I had to photocopy my personal identification as well. I could just email all this to them. NOT ON YOUR FRIGGIN' LIFE.I contacted the Bank, and they were highly concerned too. THEY HAD ALREADY TRANSFERED THE MONEY TO THIS COMPANY, so there is no reason for them to even ASK for this other stuff. I decided right then and there to cease doing business with those guys, and the bank told me to ask for my money back, in the form if a Credit Back, then follow up with hard mail. Geez. Of course then I thought to check the Better Business Bureau, only to find that they have 78 complaints against them for poor customer service and follow up. Joy.I now have to wait to see if I've lost that money, still don't have a web host, and am totally paranoid about doing any business at all. Isn't life wonderful.

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