Well I guess there are two sides to every story.
I DID in fact pay for 1/2 the gas or OFFERED 1/2 gas (which was declined)
EVERYWHERE we went. I have receipts of it to the Alpine ride which I paid in
debit card. I NEVER asked for these rides--they were ALWAYS offered. I have yet
to see a cell phone bill in which I made these calls--which I would be happy to
pay for. I ALWAYS offered to clean out camper/truck but she said no--she had a
method. I am not the only one who went thru this with her. No I DID NOT STEAL
your HRM!! I have my own that I paid for. How dare you accuse me of that on this
public forum!!! I was nice and generous and always offered to pay my way and
then some. By the way, we knew each other VERY WELL. I thought we were close
friends but found out that was not the case.
I have her on EMAIL BLOCK cause this person
has been trashing me for awhile and my lawyer advised to end all contact. Be
very careful who you hook up with!! Some people get weird and psycho! This is a
friendship that went sour and she seems to be dragging it out instead of
growing up and going on with her life. Sorry Ridecamp
had to share this. I hope this get posted because I believe that I have a
right to defend myself against false accusations and public
trashing.
Karla Watson
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:58
AM
Subject: [RC] Sharing expenses to
rides
This is endurance related, but not horse related. I wonder how
other endurance riders handle sharing expenses to the rides.
The reason I ask is this last year I answered a post from a women that
had move from southern California and rode when she was a kid. She
posted on RC that she was boarding in the Beavercreek, Oregon area, but didn't
know a thing about endurance or the trails system that her boarding facility
was on. She also didn't have a truck, trailer or camper. I loaned
her my heart rate monitor and even my saddle. She did have an Arabian horse,
so she thought she wanted to try endurance. Being the type of person I
am (with 12 years of AERC membership, endurance riding, truck, camper and
trailer), plus knowing the entire trail system in the Beavercreek area, I
called her and showed her the trails and offered to haul her to two endurance
rides. The last ride was Alpine and she actually brought home a second
horse, (the raffle horse), which I hauled in my trailer all the way back to
Beavercreek. My question is, do most people that share
rides share the gas as well and when hauling an extra horse do they charge a
hauling fee? I didn't know this person that well and to my surprise when
I got home from the last ride she had charged up over $25.00 in cell phone use
on my phone (without asking). I felt petty asking to be reimbursed for
the cell phone charges, but I did, in a nice way. To date she has not
paid anything. I'm also missing a nice HRM now too, but that's my
mistake for being too trusting. Is this typical when you "share" a trip
to a ride? The only thing I have to compare it to is true friends that I
have hauled to rides. Of course they always are extremely gracious and
appreciative to have someone do all the driving and to be able to be in a nice
warm camper. All my other friends would always stay behind when we got
home and even clean up the camper with me. This one would just get her
stuff and leave. Maybe I'm being too picky, but I thought I'd just ask
fellow ride campers how they handle these type of people. Of course
she will not be going with me anymore (I learned that lesson
the hard way). Thanks for your input.
DeAnn #12874
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