[Steppes] Discouraging / Encouraging

[Wilkerson, Glen D]

Some people either never learn, or were never taught, the single most
basic rule for getting along in any society, much less ours...

"Don't Act Like An Ass."

Alaric

-----Original Message-----
From: steppes-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:steppes-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Catalina
Elvira Osorio de Moscoso y Lopez de Xerez
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:37 AM
To: steppes at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Steppes] Discouraging / Encouraging


I hesitated before posting this because I am not trying to be
inflammatory, 
but our problems retaining new people is not just a generation gap
thing.

    Working gate wearing a plain cotton tunic and skirt and .......no 
indications of rank.......I have been yelled at because I asked for
proof of 
membership, talked down to by people trying to get the family max to
apply 
to 6 adults and assorted children, yelled at by someone who thought the
site 
fee was too expensive, had someone practically throw a bag of 300
pennies 
because they were mad about the surcharge, cussed out because someone
who 
claimed to have pre-paid wasn't on the ACCEPS list, yelled out by
someone 
who didn't have proof of membership and didn't want to pay the three
bucks 
and talked to as if I were an idiot because I didn't know if Sir So-n-so
was 
on site yet.

I laugh it off because some of the same people treat me very differently

when they see me in Court Garb wearing my insignia.
But what kind of view of the SCA would that give someone who was working

gate for their first time?



Catalina
Sanguinem dumtaxat causam virtutis pendate

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