Gift

chstress53, do you have a reading problem? Did you bother to read my above post before replying? I know I stated clearly that I was giving your TB to Mushtang to drop off... so what was your post about again? I would love to post your exceptionally rude emails here in the forums, but I don't have a tendency to keep that kind of thing around in my inbox. Believe me, from now on, I will make a habit of saving emails from people like you. I can only assume that you are "grandstanding" now- telling me to post them all, when I have already mentioned I do not have them. That you could be so deliberately dishonest is amazing to me. Why?- just to gain points in the forums? The reason Team Pez was never mentioned in my posts- is because he has never done anything but be the most polite about anything. Yes, he did email me a reminder once, directly after the event cache. As I knew I was bringing it to the west coast to log in different caches, I did not reply. ( I was very busy with wedding stuff) The bottom line is: As much as I would like to throw it away because of all the rotten things you have said/done recently- we're getting rid of your stupid bug. I'm so sorry it ever fell into my hands. I just can't bring myself to do the wrong thing. Perhaps, someday, someone will demonstrate to your children that lying and bullying is not the proper way to accomplish your goals (evidently, you are incapable of grasping such a concept.) I really love people who have no ability to recognize the humanity in other humans. You find out someone has picked up your TB who has an upcoming wedding, and you yell at them and threaten them because they haven't dropped it off yet. When that doesn't work, you flame them in the forums, purposefully omitting half of the information. Never once, did you try just asking nicely. Here it is, because someone should at least teach you how to apologize: I'm terribly sorry my real life got in the way of your vikings key chain moving across the country. I'm sorry I haven't had a day off in over a month so that I could go geocaching specifically to help someone out who has only been a rude jerk to me. I apologize that my getting married ruined your fun. I'm very sorry I did not respond well to your threats and your rudeness. I'm very sorry I have had to have any sort of contact with you. Most of all, I feel very sorry for your kids. Gift

Congratulations Erik!!!!!

Also, Team NEOS, I perticularly resent the implication in your post that my husband shouldn't be out caching when I work 7 days a week. Working 7 days a week is my choice, and My husband works very hard as well. I am happy that because I work, my husband is able to have the free time to cache. (most of the caches he logs are on his lunch hour at work) He made it so I did not have to work while I planned our wedding at the end of October of this year. I realize that it might have appeared unbalanced to you, but you don't have any idea about the situation. If you didn't mean anything by your comments, I apologize. I just don't want anyone who reads your post to look down on my husband for things they don't understand. Gift

I never post in the forums.. I don't care what people who do post think of me, but I'm just irritated enough about this situation to say a few things of my own. I took the Viking TB at the event, this much is true. I was very excited about it. I had every intention of bringing it on our honeymoon (a trip up the west coast) and giving its owner a leg up in the contest by moving it so many places in such a short amount of time. Although the honeymoon was over a month away, I was sure my efforts would be both fun for Mushtang and I and ensure that the Vikes would win the race. Go Vikings! (We went all the way from Tombstone, AZ to San Francisco, CA) Unfortunately, the best of plans sometimes get waylaid. Before I even had a chance to go on our honeymoon, the owner of the TB emailed me and threatened to report me to Groundspeak. There was no polite string of emails. Just an email in ALL CAPS (I don't like it when people yell at me), threatening me. Not only that, but I really am offended that the owner of the TB chose to post the emails he sent (or made up) that he deemed as polite, but "forgot" to post the emails that were exceptionally rude. After the threatening email, I immediately felt no desire to help the owner of the TB. I lost interest in putting the TB out in front of the race. In fact, over the course of the threatening and the flaming, it has altered my opinion of geocaching altogether... Previous to these events, I was always pleasantly surprised about the quality of people I encountered through this game. I couldn't understand why people were just so darn nice. I have really enjoyed meeting cachers, and have never encountered one so rude and bent on going about things the most wrong way possible. Threatening and flaming me, my husband, and my new brother in law? That's a nice touch. Needless to say, if you do that, I'm not very motivated to do anything you ask of me. I will agree that after I was threatened, perhaps I should have moved the TB along... Gotten it over with, been done with it. But at the same time, real life and family take huge priority over Geocaching to me. Since the wedding I have been working two jobs. I even worked Thanksgiving Day. I haven't been able to spend time with my husband, let alone geocache. I haven't logged any caches and not deliberately dropped off the TB. And after the hostile tone that was unnecessarily taken, I wasn't going to go out of my way, exchange sleep time or time with my husband to help out. I will give the bug to Mushtang to drop off in a cache, but only after I make something very clear: Being rude, personally attacking, and threatening people is NO WAY to get goals accomplished. Geocaching is a GAME. One that I really enjoy, but, nonetheless, a game. A 3-dollar key chain isn't worth ruining someone's day. Neither is anything having to do with the game worth threatening or being abusive over. And in response to me not "caching appropriately" I can only say this: Geocaching is a family sport- and my family comes first. I am the type of cacher that will empty my pack of trade items to stock another person's raided cache, and go the extra mile help any other cacher with anything they happen to need. My intentions with the TB were the very best, and were only altered with the threats and rudeness. I still won't be able to cache for a while, but when I return, I hope to see all of you (except this TB's owner) on the trails!