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Heck Angie, your just now catching up with me.  I received a three paged typed letter  (CERTIFIED)

within my first 4 months of this new job....Oh, and the Mayor and all the city Council members each

received a copy of it.    

 

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. >double
> sigh< 
>
> 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
>
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