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Originally Posted by
George
Now if I can go to the trouble of arranging this function, as well as providing food, drink and entertainment for you all, I don't think I am asking very much of anybody, to show me the courtesy of letting me know that you intend being present, by sending me a Pm. Am I?
If anybody thinks they will be able to just turn up on the day without having sent me a Pm, I can promise you that this will not accepted, so please don't say that you have not been forewarned.
Yes,
George, I am afraid that you are.
I would have sent this by PM, but I think that some of my views may be held by others (not that they may want to admit such a thing!), so instead I am posting it here.
I have not sent you a PM on my attendance because I do not know if I will be coming or not; I am not a "party person" and seldom attend any functions of any sort - I am not anti-social, but I just dislike crowds and being in any sort of confined space, particularly with people I do not know. If I were to tell you I would be coming that would mean that I would be catered for, included in your numbers, etc, and so (rightly or wrongly) I would feel
obliged to attend; I dislike feeling obliged to do anything just as much as I would dislike feeling guilty if I told you I would be attending and did not.
As you know I prize my anonymity; I have already said that I would have no personal problem introducing myself to you - others might, but I think it would be a discourtesy not to. The problem with the voucher/ticket system (and one of the reasons why I was strongly against it when it was first proposed) is twofold:
Firstly, I could not care less about the free drinks (although some snacks might be nice!) and I would actually feel a bit of a cheapskate handing over vouchers for drinks - if you want to buy me a drink (or two), then that would be nice and I may even buy you one back, but
to me that is a different thing.
Secondly, by having and using vouchers I would be automatically be broadcasting to everyone there that "I am a poster", possibly arousing natural curiosity as to who I was and invalidating any claim I may make that "I only read the board occasionally". Rather than do so, I would personally prefer to buy my own drinks.
When you first raised the possibility of the
Meet and Greet I made an estimate of what I thought the probable numbers would be, based on the number of regular posters, how many may be in Pattaya at any time, etc, etc, and as far as I can remember I think I came up with a figure of
eight - apparently I was not far wrong, so it obviously has nothing to do with you personally. As I said then,
it all depends on what sort of function you want.