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Re: [RC] [RC] I've got *hate* mail! - Eric DrewWhadday ya mean land of fruits and nuts...do you think we have all fried our brains out in the heat or something? LOL http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/Eric1218/Img_0224.jpg [Original Message] From: Dawn Carrie <rdcarrie@xxxxxxxxx> To: rides2far@xxxxxxxx <rides2far@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 3/26/07 12:46:47 PM Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] I've got *hate* mail! OMG...that is soooo funny!!! I can't believe she actually took the article you wrote as *serious*!!! She sounds like quite a trip! <VBG> You California people keep her out there in the Land of Fruits and Nuts...I think she'll fit in quite nicely. :) Dawn in East Texas (we have Bubbas...we don't need her as well) On 3/26/07, rides2far@xxxxxxxx <rides2far@xxxxxxxx> wrote:Well folks, I guess I've *truly* arrived. I just got my first REAL hate mail and I've just got to share. I got a 3 page single spaced letter postmarked from Oakland California about the article EN recently printed, "Endurance Riding By Invitation Only". Since it's anonymous, I can only guess it was written by Roseanne Rosanne Danna. I kept thinking about Foghorn Leghorn's saying, "It's a JOKE son!" It starts out blasting me for being anti-Quarter Horse because I commented on the "Lead'em and Feed'em Halter Heifer, I mean Horse ranks" and goes on to blast me for being and Arab snob. Whoa! Did I mention Quarter Horses *anywhere* in that article? Do Arab shows not have *halter* classes?? Does she know I started out for the first 2 years on Appaloosas (a half QH Appaloosa at that!)??? >sigh< Then she goes on to say how appalled she and her sister, as show riders, were at how unfriendly the atmosphere was at rides compared to the show ring.doublesigh< Of course *she* has helped people apply easyboots (ditto here) stopped to help hurt people (ditto here) and though SHE rides an Arab she hasn't harrassed newcomers who don't the way *I* would. (hard to do that when I was on an Appaloosa at the time and all) All I can say is you folks in Oakland must be pretty cutthroat because according to her in her two years experience of competition you guys run her off the trail, shove her away from water, don't know how to ride, are *very* cliquey, and the mentors in her area seem to hope she doesn't succeed. Then she took offense at my "never recruit anyone you wouldn't want to drink after" statement. She asked, "Is that water only, or alcoholic beverages". Hello... woman, I think everybody who has ever even run into me or read anything I write knows I'm a Southern Baptist. One sip of beer would send us straight to hell. I don't drink ANYTHING. Insinuating I'm a drunk sure won't fly. >g< Then she said, "So as for drinking from a water bottle that you find on the trail, how gross. Have you ever looked inside a porti potti? There are some dirt, nasty people out there". I knew it...she thinks her **** dont' stink! >eg< Heck, put a porta potti in a nunnery and it's gonna be dirty, and nasty woman! Does she think somebody fills their waterbottle up in there? What's she been looking in there for?? Oh yeah...then she throws in a jab that all us *endurance riders* have fancy living quarters don't we. HA HA. She should get a good look at my 1994 truck pulling a 1988 trailer with me sleeping on a cot in the back. Go on Rosanna.... Then, my favorite part. After sending an anonymous letter, she writes: "Thank you again, I do not expect this to be printed or a response, I just had to let it out". Respond... to an anonymous letter? Who am I supposed to send it to?? I got to thinking about this letter and that article and I think what has happened is you guys in Oakland are doing the right thing. You've tried to recruit the right kind of people...fun loving, no chips on shoulders, intelligent, ABLE TO TAKE A JOKE, etc. and somehow this person slipped through the cracks. Thus, when she's around you're trying hard to make things appear not fun so she'll go away. I know it's difficult and you really like new people so you're probably a little stressed about this but all I can say is, stay at it. As bad as I offended her and if you guys keep it up, you all should be free of her soon. :-)) Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= --- Eric Drew --- eidrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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