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Old 02-08-2013, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
Did you find your cushions in the bushes? I find it hard to imagine that anyone working as an event planner would do that. I know that I have felt like it at times. Perhaps some villager did it.

I guess we bring with us to this big melting pot the traditions and attitudes and accepted practices that we are used to.

No one that I can remember got in front of me in line in Ohio or went early to save a chair at unpaid events.

There have been many discussions here on this forum about this issue and a few have suggested that signs about no seat saving would work, but many others were sceptical.

I hope you know Gingersnap that there are many, kind and caring people here in this very large and diverse place, and there are those who don't care about anyone but themselves. Moving here isn't going to change them and I think that the policy setters were patient for too long this time in their efforts to see if we would all behave like adults.

I am very glad that they are doing something about it, which I hope ISN'T pillow-tossing-into-the bushes.

I have seen with my own eyes, groups of chairs at LSL with a chain and a padlock. It made me want to bite.

I wouldn't want to be an event planner trying to calmly explain this new practice to people who think they deserve to run things the way they want.

OUCH!!!
You couldn't have said it any nicier Gracie!!!!! Chain and Locks????? Wow!!!! hehehehe