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"Bitchy Bartender:" Why I'm An Asshole With Thank YousA reader wrote this: Ace, Okay. This stung, and I deserved it. Here's what I wrote back, with a little additional stuff. David, Have I never thanked you? I do apologize. There are a couple of reasons I don't thank everyone. First of all, bad manners. I try to give most people an individualized thank you, usually with a joke, and that turns into a long process. Then I end up putting off thank yous for a while, and then I put it off some more, and pretty soon I don't thank someone who is owed a thank you. I really am sorry to those who didn't get thanked during the last donation drive. I know I got most people, but I know I missed a lot of people, too. I do appreciate the donations. Basically, they pay for rent and food. Why I have this hang-up about just writing "Thanks a lot!" if I'm out of creative juice I don't know. PS: An example of the fake PayPal "notifications." I get twenty or thirty of these a week, sometimes more. Dear PayPal user , The emails look like real PayPal emails, with their logos and trade-dress and all, but all of the links are scam-links. They look like they go to PayPal, but if you check the actual address, they're going somewhere else. Again, this doesn't excuse my ingratitude. But there are a number of legimiate PayPal notifications that do get lost in the inundation of fake PayPal emails.
Liz from Rightalk told me that if I send someone an email, they can figure out my exact address from the hidden headers in my email. Other people tell me that's not true, but I've had this worry about sending emails to people I don't know for a year. That's why I refused to send Deb Frisch an email. A year ago I guy sent me an email telling me he loved the site and wanted to send me $500. My paranoia told me this was a scam. So I eventually wrote back to the guy, but I did so via a computer at an internet cafee about fifteen blocks away from my house. I was still worried about this guy. Even though he sent me a half-g. You might think that would be enough to convince me of his bona fides, but to me, it just suggested He's willing to pay that much to get hold of your address. (BTW, not many people send me that much money, obviously. I've had three or four donations at that level or higher.) He turned out to be on the level. He did send $500 bucks. But even when he sent me the $500 bucks, I thanked him by going back to the internet cafe and writing my thank you from there. If you've sent "Great blog, Ace!" type posts, and you didn't get a "Thanks," it's because I'm scared you're a lefty who just wants to hunt me down and eat me. I tend not to respond to people unless I recognize their name or handle from the comments. | Recent Comments
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