ES - Courtesy & Other Things
G.R.Rhine
StoneCircle at earthcorp.com
Wed May 27 05:49:34 PDT 1998
I suppose we are all guilty of failing to use titles, and if I have
ever offended anyone I am truly sorry.
***Short disclaimer before I bash***
In each of the instances below, I did not see anyone *I* knew
personally, so I see this as more of a Society or Kingdom wide
problem, than a problem in Elfsea
*** End of disclaimer***
I would like to add comments on another note of courtesy
however. Since I have been playing (again) I have noticed that the
courtesy on the whole is not what it used to be (5 years ago, when I
began). At both Elfsea Defender, and Elfsea Springfaire I got to site
before my lord, and set up camp by myself. On both occasions there
were men (healthy full grown men) standing around watching me, who
never offered to help me. (At Defender they did finally offer
when I went to set up the walls of my tent.) This weekend, there were
several times when I was walking from camp to the list field with
my arms full of HEAVY things, no one offered to come to my
aid, and when we were setting up camp (next to the vigil) on Friday
night, there were several Knights who stood and watched myself and
another lady unloading our vehicles, without the offer of aid. How
are newcomers supposed to learn these things if not by example?
As for asking for help, it seems to me that since chivalry,(the
respect and courtesy with which we are supposed to treat one another)
is one of the main building blocks, which the Society has been
created upon, no one should have to ask. Maybe that is taking a bit
of a hard stand, but then again my belief is that most of us are big
boys and girls and shouldn't have to be reminded like children. If
those of us who have been around a while, will teach by example, then
newer people will learn, and will understand much better, than being
told "Do as I say, not as I (or a good portion of the people) do."
*stepping off my soapbox, yet once again*
~Afan~
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