Dialogue
Housekeeping note.
I don’t have official rules. I think the tacit ones are obvious enough, in general. I guess however I need to state one rule, or not so much as a rule as a strong preference which, if flouted enough times, may lead to deletion of comments.
That rule or preference goes like this: we’re having a conversation here. That too is obvious enough, surely? We go back and forth. We exchange views. I like it that way, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.
So thanks very much but I don’t want drive-by corrections by someone who never ever replies to replies to the corrections. If you won’t engage then I don’t want your corrections. That’s why I deleted Skeletor’s most recent correction. Conversation or don’t bother.
I don’t think that’s too harsh. I’ve told Skeletor more than once that I don’t like the drive-by no-replies unilateral approach, so please stop ignoring responses, but I’ve been ignored. Enough.
Yes, but deleting Skeletor on Halloween …
Yes, deleting Skeletor on Halloween when he (no kidding) posted the comment, carved pumpkins with his kids (we were running a little late this year), took them trick or treating, read to them for a half hour, then just told them good night and went to read my favorite blog only to find this…unfortunate situation. I have to balance being father of the year with my internet time.
Lol, oh well. I admit to being guilty of this most of the time. Mostly it’s just because I comment and then by the time I get back to the blog several new stories are up. It’s not actually a plan to drive Ophelia mad. It just seems that way.
lol I didn’t even think of the Halloween aspect.
No of course I don’t expect instant replies or replies every time or anything like it! It’s just the frustration of every single time. If it’s not every single time then I won’t get in a huff.
Will undelete. Rattle them bones.
Reminds me of when I have taken the trouble to go to court to fight a traffic ticket and the cop doesn’t show up. It’s a win by default, but I’d rather beat them out of it. ;)
Twiliter, you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride. Cops and many prosecutors from what I can see, engineer the ride to be the punishment for minor to moderate ‘offending’.
I once got a ticket for going 41 in a 30, written up as 10 over, when my speedometer showed me going maybe 35 at most, and there was nothing wrong with my speedometer.
So I appealed it. I’d been told the the cops usually don’t show up, but he did. The judge asks him if his radar gun is calibrated, and he said it was. The judge asks if he has the most recent calibration document, and he shuffled through his pile of stuff and says he didn’t bring it. Aha! I’m feeling pretty good at this point.
So then the judge asks how fast I was going, and I say for sure no more than 35. The judge then pointed out the penalty for 1-10 over was the same, so since I was admitting to up to 5 over, case closed, I lose.
So that was a colossal waste of time. I obviously should have checked to see if it made a difference. And kind of annoying knowing I probably could have lied and gotten out of it. Oh well.
Yes, well, normally I wouldn’t have an excuse this good. Just got lucky today.
Thanks. I’ll try to do better. I guess we’ll see if I pull it off,
Skeletor:
Have you subscribed to the comments RSS feed? That makes it easier to follow the comments on the threads you’ve contributed to.
I get a bit overwhelmed, sometimes, with everything that’s going on and sometimes have to just guiltily ignore whole threads, even though I’m sure the comments are brilliant. But I try to keep track of any I’ve made a substantial or controversial contribution to and RSS is the easiest way to do that (for me).
Of course, it was even easier when the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” worked. Stupid WordPress.
@6 Going to court to beat a ticket has only worked for me when I was not breaking any laws Skelly, lol… Going in with hope they won’t show up is a crapshoot, and I don’t have that kind of luck. I go in with pictures and self righteousness. ;)
One reason I do not comment much here is precisely because I want to avoid drive-by commenting: The time zone difference, with me being in Norway and our host ten timezones behind, makes it difficult to have any meaningful conversation. I typically get in one comment, don’t see any responses before going to bed, and when I have time to follow up next, it is usually quite late in my day, and all of North America has gone to bed. I hate it when someone responds to something I wrote and I don’t get to respond back.
But my previous comment, even though a drive-by comment too, resulted in one of the longest comment threads recently. Everybody seemed to enjoy it, so I am happy. It was hilarious.
Skeletor @ 6 – I love that! It’s so you! “But I was only going 35!” “Cool but the limit is 30 so why bother to correct?”
Yeah, well, I didn’t like being falsely accused of going 41 by a clearly crooked cop. Also, everyone knows you’re not really speeding if you’re within 5 mph of the speed limit. I should have appealed to common law.
But mostly I was hoping the cop wouldn’t show up.
Thanks for the tip, latsot.
My last unfair ticket (the only ticket I’ve gotten in years) the cop didn’t show up, but the court didn’t care. They didn’t expect that. They had a prosecutor take the case; since he was on my side, and requested it be dismissed without prejudice, I didn’t care either way. He came to court convinced it was a bogus ticket, and after talking to me, decided he was right. I was tagged for being in the left lane, but since every other car was in the left lane, and the right lane filled with lines and lines of semis we were passing, it was definitely bogus. I think he picked on me because of the Darwin fish. Or something. Maybe he just doesn’t like middle aged women driving.