Categories: rants-and-pontifications
Date: 27 May 2010 10:15:05
Gentle readers, this post is officially the first in my new category of Rants and Pontifications. You have over the years been mistreated and exposed to some of my outbursts of exasperation. Those were unofficial. Kind of. In honour of having recently been subject to some rather irritating situations about which I have not had time to blog I now feel it is the time to formalise these situations by awarding them a section all of their very own.
Rants are likely to feature wailing and gnashing of teeth about irritating people and/or situations whereas Pontifications may be more soap-box in style where I disclose How Things Should be Done - and Would Be Done If I Ruled the World.
So. Fasten your seat belts for a Rant.
Some time ago, an acquaintance and I fell into conversation and found we had a mutual area of interest. He was keen to pursue our interest by forming a club. I took soundings and duly advertised the launch of proposed club in the village. A few people came on the date suggested and a club was shakily launched. One person, who would be a key asset to the club, expressed an interest but said she could not manage to meet on the evening arranged.
I sent an email to the other members saying, "Tell me all the evenings of the week you are free and I will sort out the one which is the best for the majority." I even bossily emboldened the word "free". Of those who have deigned to reply by the deadline (which was given because we need to advertise any change of date in the next village newspaper that is issued only 3 times a year), most have said "Oh yes, Thursdays are fine for me." One has even said "I've told a lot of friends that we meet on Thursdays and they may be coming along, too."
Gah. I know Thursdays are fine for you; you came to the last meeting on a Thursday; I want to know which other nights of the week are also good. Believe me, dear club members, if we can meet on an evening that is not Thursday, we will all benefit hugely from our potential Key Asset member. I am not asking you to change your evening for some perverse reason of my own... it is done entirely with your interests in mind.
I had been trying to sort this thing out efficiently - but now I'm going to have to send another email (I shall have to try not to be too bossy or patronising - but really, how difficult is the question?) and cross my fingers that they get the message this time.
Another most irritating thing about this is that My Acquaintance whose enthusiasm for the idea sparked the whole venture in the first place did not come to the first meeting and has not even replied to the most recent email.
GAH!!