Another for your list, Susan: One who uses the venues of another to openly hawk and promote their own CD/availability for performance! Our folk society is often recruited to have a group play at festivals, etc., as a 'public service,' around our area. We generally open these events up and let anyone interested show up and play--and it had always worked out fine. Then we got a new member... From the beginning, she was different. Every meeting was an opportunity to make the "song jam" sit and listen to the songs she'd written since the *last* song jam (that one's already on your list); She demanded 'stage time' for our weekend mini-festivals, although she never offered to teach a workshop, set up chairs, work in the kitchen, etc. (Generally, stage time is offered first to the workshop leaders, next to the volunteers, and finally opened up for 'open stage' slots.) But, the best one of all: She showed up at one of our "public service" performances at a local festival, armed with a big boom box, a TV tray, her 'business cards,' and a box of CDs. She proceeded to set up her "booth" right there, in the [charity group] pavilion, and turn on the boom box--playing her CD, LOUDLY--before, after, and at every slight pause in our performance! (Instrument change, etc.) To say that I was livid is the understatement of the century... Happy ending: She left our group soon afterward--we "weren't doing anything for her..." (Funny, she wasn't doing anything for us, either!) Denise:^)
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