Originally Posted by
Driver8
Aw shoot, Hikerboy57, I thought we were having fun. You single out others here for teasing and mockery so often in this thread, and elsewhere, it seemed pretty clear you thought it just good old fashioned sport. Now you're saying you don't like being on the receiving end. I'm sorry to have contributed to your unhappiness.
About the phone call, funny how you took the calls when it was me asking you to let up on me, but when the shoe's on the other foot, you don't take the call. Does that mean you're too sensitive? Or does it mean we all are sensitive, and you, me, everyone else ought to take better care not to insult, disrespect, mock and belittle others here?
Look, Andy, you don't like me, never have - something about me rubs you the wrong way, and you can't help but channel venom in my direction, despite my best efforts. That started from our first interaction where you ridiculed and mocked me personally, two years ago, for asking if it would be possible, reasonable, to get better cell phone service in between Pinkham Notch and Mt. Washington after my first trip to the Whites. It's a hot button issue for you, and it got us off on the wrong foot, and I get the idea it doesn't take much to get on your wrong side for good. I have tried time and again to make peace with you, with little or no give on your part. I hoped that would get better after our group outing last January, where you were great and we all had a good time.
I'm glad we had that nice day together, where I saw a better side of you. I continue to try to remember that more and forget your nasty side. It's too bad you can't bring yourself to treat me better and to stop mocking and teasing me and others whenever you feel like it, regardless of any sense of manners, courtesy or their feelings - I'm one of many people who really don't like that about you; just happen to be the one most willing to confront you about it.
I don't expect you to reform yourself, to bite your tongue rather than to mock when it occurs to you, least of all on account of me. I could easily be friends with the Andy I met in January, he was all right. I'm rooting for him to win that fight between you and yourself you mentioned earlier, but I'm not betting on him.
You wondered in another thread the other day why people leave Whiteblaze, or come less often. I'd bet the sniping and snarking, which you're a professional at, is reason number one. The high degree of moderation we get here would die down if people weren't so nasty.
