I never was very "people smart". My own mother told me I was too trusting. But, here's my two cents...

Nobody is perfect, but I have found that the only way to strive toward this unattainable goal is to apologize for and attempt to correct frailties.

When people do not do this, they truly are nasty. And there are some nasties aboutst.

However, when people do this, there may be an underlying frailty, perhaps more than one. It could be the fear of being cast aside by friends or by the assembled, such as the mudcat community in general. Conjecture leads me to end this line of thought, as it does not need further examples.

I'll just add this example of sommat I have experienced and see if it may apply here... I worked for large companies in their engineering departments. Every day, I dealt with engineers, accoutants, lawyers, contractors, politicians, scientists, and so on. On Saturday morning, I went to the grocery store and dealt with people such as those who would park their shopping cart kitty-corner in the aisle and stick their arse in the rest of the aisle, oblivious to the fact that there was anyone else in the store.

Mudcat is a grocery store. You don't have to be a scientist to post. That is Max's greatest rule. Anybody can shop here. And anybody can leave. Anybody can let that idiot block the aisle for everybody to see.

I hope you understand why I proferred this ezample. If not, sue me... I ain't perfect.

BTW... me too... if I ever offended anybody unintentionally, I do apologize. The ones I intentionally offended can go fuck yerselves.