Experiences meeting 'catters ?

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 11:37 AM

Emphatically no ... but I've had several near misses where I ended up being sorry I didn't meet a Catter.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 11:15 AM

Pass me your coffee cup Amos :)

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 11:05 AM

Nope. Wish I could meet more and more often.


A

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: frogprince
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 10:50 AM

I've met a handful now, and so far the plain answer is no. And I also don't see any worthwhile point to this thread. Say that I had met someone and we didn't really get along; I could say "yes" to the question, and cast just that little shadow over the the idea of getting together with others in person. But the problem might have been my fault, rather than the other persons, and if I tried to spell out details, I might not be at all fair in what I said. The chance of your learning anything worthwhile from a "no" answer here is negligible.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 10:47 AM

The question is sort of like asking if there was ever a member of your own family you had problems with.

But the answer is: Meeting someone is how you decide whether you would want to go out of your way to meet them again. Most of *my* meetings ....maybe 150?... have been positive.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 10:36 AM

I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting every Mudcatter whom I've met in the "real world" (but that "real world" is a folk music world, so we've already got interests in common). And there are a lot I'd still like to meet. Some have made more of an impression and become more a part of my life than others, some I'd like to meet in person more often rather than communicating almost solely online (on this forum and Facebook, as well as in email, etc.). A substantial number of these I'd not have connected with except via Mudcat.

Truly wish a lot of the people I've met lived closer so we could get together more often for good music, good food, good drink and, maybe most importantly, good conversation.

Linn

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 10:20 AM

Nope... Love all ones I've met... Some more than others, mind you...

B~

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 09:54 AM

no.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 07:18 AM

This thread is a bit like a ticking bomb...

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: kendall
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 07:16 AM

If you have nothing good to say about a person, come, sit by me.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 06:39 AM

No - but I know a man who has
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Allan C.
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:56 AM

The Mudcat is made up of people. As they say: people are people. It is just as illogical to imagine that all Mudcatters are fabulous as it is to imagine that they are all bad. Therefore it makes sense to consider that they may cover the entire range in varying percentages. I think it may still be safe to say that Bill Sables and I have probably met more Mudcatters than anyone else. I am sure he will agree that most of them were quite pleasant encounters. Many turned out to be exactly as they appeared to be online. Some were even nicer. But in light of what was said above, it would be unrealistic to say that none of them were, at least at times, disagreeable. But to answer your question I would have to say, no. I am not sorry in the least to have met any 'Catter. By doing so I have learned much more about them, some good; some bad. I learned enough to get a sense of who I would like to hang out with and who to avoid. This is really no different than the way in which most people process acquaintances.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:42 AM

I can count 25 or so people I've met via Mudcat and in each case the experience has been positive, constructive and life-affirming - at least it has for me. I have had the occasional '...you're nothing like your on-line persona...' but I don't come here for social chit-chat, rather to expound polemically on weighty concerns of mutual concern which is something I tend not to do in real life, not much anyway, prefering to eat, drink and be merry - and talk about stuff that really matters (such recent developments on EastEnders, the delights of The Trafford Centre, AVP, and the new Sherlock Holmes) than the finer points of the Green Man, the Folk Process and the 1954 Definition. On Mudcat these things matter (at least they used to!) but in real life they don't amount to a hill of beans. People are the most important thing; in Folk it's the Folk that make it real which is one of the benefits of Mudcat.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: treewind
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:34 AM

If that ever happened, would they post to Mudcat about it with details?

Sorry, but I can't see a thread on this subject being very constructive, or as grandmother put it: "If you can't find anything nice to say, don't say anything"

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:24 AM

Yup

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: greg stephens
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:22 AM

No (that I know of)

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:20 AM

Yes.

Subject: RE: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:19 AM

If I had I would not report it on here!!!!!!!

Subject: ever sorry you met a 'catter ?
From: MARINER
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 04:41 AM

I have often seen threads here looking for meetings with Mudcatters from various parts of the world. That got me to wondering, Has anyone who met a 'catter via a request on MudCat ever regretted, for any reason, meeting that person ?