Sheila Hanna
I personally want to thank you for taking over Franklin County. I had
it for a while but got too busy to keep it up. Please jump in and ask
questions and discuss US GEN Web stuff any time. I too am tired of the
list but need to know if things are really needed so stay here reading
and reading. I will check and see if I have any Franklin Co. microfilm
I can send you.
Ginger Christmas Warren Co. NC
Sheila Hanna wrote:
I know that I'm new to this particular barn dance and that the
politically correct thing to do would be to simply be quiet and watch as
the two contestants in this grudge match flame each other into oblivion,
but I don't always make the "politically correct" choice and, to be
honest, the two of you are getting on my very last nerve. Therefore,
I'm going to join the fray long enough to share a few thoughts of my own...
I realize that you both have points that you wish to make, and I also
recognize that there is some validity to both of your arguments.
Nevertheless, it appears that the rest of us are all getting tired of
checking our e-mail only to find ourselves being forcibly dragged into
your pissing contest. Okay - we get it - we know that Sandy thinks Nola
is up to no good and that Derrick thinks Sandy is up to no good. You've
both explained your thinking and your reasons, loudly and clearly for
all to see. Now can't you both just let it be and let the rest of us
make up our minds for ourselves? MUST you continue to beat the horse
until it's not only down but dead, flayed, disemboweled, and shaken
wildly until the entrails are spread all over our particular barnyard
(thus covering every passerby with blood along the way)?
The "classy" thing to do in this situation would be to:
a) acknowledge the fact that the rest of is have brains of our own and
don't need to have the same points repeated ad nauseum, and
b) either continue your fight via personal e-mail OR assume you've made
your points and shut up
Here's the thing that maybe neither of you get... the rest of us have
lives that already include more than enough problems and hassles. I,
for example, have an uncle dying of esophogeal and stomach cancer and
his daughter is now in the hospital with both breast cancer and e-coli.
Another uncle just had 9 polyps and a mass removed from his intestines
and we're waiting for biopsy results on all of that. My son, who
recently returned from 16 months in Afghanistan is now in the middle of
a divorce and we all ad to drop everything to attend a funeral for one
of his fellow-soldiers who blew his brains out with a shotgun last
week. Meanwhile, my father is 10 years into a leukemia variant that
should have killed him by now and my mom was diagnosed with a rare form
of Parkinson's just over a month ago and she's now living with me. In
addition, my husband is working out-of-state, so he's only here to help
me take care of my mom and our large country property on weekends and my
dad is back up north because he's had to start chemo shots, thus leaving
me to care for my mom alone. There's a lot more I could tell you, but
I'm assuming you get the point: I came back into the GenWeb project
to help me unwind and do at least one thing that makes me feel in
control of some small aspect of my life and like I'm doing something to
help someone, somewhere. Your nasty, sniping, whiney missives are
sucking every last bit of energy from me at the very times that I most
want to just step away from the crap going on everywhere else in the
world and you are stealing that small and precious time from me and
everyone else in our illustrious group. Sandy says we should unsub if
we don't want to hear the bull@&$! and I believe that's a really crappy
attitude. Take your garbage elsewhere so the rest of us can use this
list as it's supposed to be used - for discussions. You stopped
discussing the issues long ago and are now just wasting our time by
repeating yourselves and spewing insults and accusations. YOU take your
problems elsewhere and leave us to do what we come here to do - have
meaningful and productive discussions about matters of concern to
everyone in the group, not just the two of you. You both have personal
e-mail so, if you must keep sniping, please do it privately and leave
the rest of us out of it.
That's my two cents. Sorry if I've offended anyone else in the group,
especially since I'm the new kid on the block and really don't know any
of you. I'll do my best to hold my tongue from here on out ;-)
Sheila Hanna
Franklin County, NC GenWeb <
http://www.ncgenweb.us/franklin/> coordinator
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