[Sca-cooks] idiots
Martin G. Diehl
mdiehl at nac.net
Sat Nov 20 13:54:03 PST 2004
Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
> Vincenzo commented:
> > At Metalsmith Symposium I, October 2002, Saturday
> > afternoon while doing prep for the feast ...
[snip]
> Were those her own pots? If so, then I can certainly
> think of various reasons.
No ... it makes much more sense now that it seemed to make
then.
> I once loaned over $500 worth of stuff (sword, custom
> sword scabbard, dagger and scabbard and dress helmet) to
> my barony for a demo. And lost all of it. Apparently the
> person who had the stuff brought it to a fighter practice,
> dropped it off and didn't check to see that the equipment
> got back to its proper owners.
Ouch!
> I now am very particular about who I loan anything to for
> an SCA event.
Understandable.
> It could well be that this lady simply didn't know you.
Although that was true, it was not the major factor.
> And she might have had to leave the event before the
> feast or the cleanup was done, so she couldn't stick
> around to make sure the pots got returned to her.
It was a 3 day event ... she wasn't sure about attending
the next day ... and I promised to personally deliver
them to her home if she did not attend the last day.
> Stefan
BTW, I think that we are talking about more than one root
cause of lost items.
In one of these, the owner makes a loan to "A" who then
loans the item to "B". "A" knows the owner, but fails to
convey that information and burden to "B". IOW, a scenario
where the item is not actually lost, but instead, can't be
returned because the ownership is 'lost'.
Understanding the 'loss' process might lead to effective
proactive countermeasures.
Vincenzo
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