Larry wrote: > > I'm curious! I've never been to a Coupe fly-in, what're they like? Do you all walk > around with a frown on your faces, asking for the latest hot news on 337's or STC's? > If you hear someone in the background laugh, or crack a joke, do you walk over and > inform the offender that this fly-in is for the technical betterment of flying safe?
Well, now, I guess I enjoy the fun and joking a lot. I've enjoyed most of the unappreciated threads we've had here and I am NOT planning to leave this list. I LIKE socializing with you all. But, when time is short, at a fly-in or here, I sometimes want to spend that scarce resource wisely. My wife, job and four year old daughter take up LOTS of my time. I'm stealing time from something else that needs to be done to write this. Imagine, at a fly-in, that you need to ask a question of the knowledgeable people for something critical to you and your safety. Or that you've found someone who knows how to do something you've always wanted to do. Then, as you try to hold the serious discussion, the joking group comes over to join you. Then, because that's the nature of conversation, there are two or three joking statements inserted between every statement of your serious conversation. There's no blame associated with this situation. Everybody is just doing what they most want and are not willingly hurting others. > If you hear a second joke coming from a different source, do you say "That's it," and > gather the few techno purists off to a different part of the airport? Yeah, sometimes we have to. But, if I take my technical conversation off to the side of the hangar for a serious discussion, I trust the joking group will continue to enjoy themselves. I'll be back to join you having fun, too. For this reason, I see only benefit in having a general, open list which may include technical discussion, social stuff, travelogues, events, jokes and spoofs -- such as this one. At the same time, I see value in having a serious subject only list because I don't want to miss any of the serious subject discussions. Sometimes, here, the message load becomes overwhelming given my limited time. Then I just have to delete a hundred or two hundred messages to get caught up. And then I miss all the technical stuff which was mixed in the soup. For this reason, I think I'll happily stay in both lists. I'll do this knowing that, sometimes, I may have to dump all the back log on the fun side to keep from being buried. <sigh> I sure wish there were more hours in a day. -- Ed Burkhead Peoria, Ill. Ercoupe N3802H, 415-D __________________________________________________________________________ ______ To unsubscribe from this list please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________ Get your favorite topic delivered daily. http://www.topica.com/t/11
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