Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-02-19 20:44
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<<< Thanks for the snarkage.
I have been asking around and thought I would try here. God Forbid!??? >>>
"Snarkage"??
[long pause]
Man, you sure got some SERIOUS issues there. [rolleyes]
What happened to, "Hey, Dutchy, thanks for looking some stuff up for me"? How about just saying, "Hey, that's not quite what I had in mind, but thanks anyway"?
How about spending a little time here on our FORUM with us before you start with the snotty comments, directed towards people you do not even know, about whom you know absolutely nothing?? This is a FORUM for DISCUSSION, not a "Dial A Teacher Service". We don't exist solely so that people can sign up and come in here and DEMAND that we tell them where they can find an oboe teacher convenient to their house, and if you thought that's what you were getting for your sign-up fee, you got another think coming.
...Oh, wait--you didn't pay anything to come in here and start insulting us. Silly me.
Well, hey, *I* made *MY* contribution to the recently concluded fund drive. Why don't YOU kick in a couple bucks, and then maybe you'll have the right to call ME "snarky" for taking 20 minutes out of my Sunday morning before church and ATTEMPTING to help you by looking up what are actually some solid leads on oboe teachers in the New Jersey area.
And pardon me I'm sure because I don't happen to be intimately familiar with the geography of the Garden State and gave you some leads to places that were unfortunately not right next door to where you live.
Gah.
FYI, there are people who come in here and ask, "Tell me how I can find an oboe teacher" who genuinely do not know that what they have to do is find some people who know other people who might know someone who plays the oboe, and ask THEM. They think, like you, that all they have to do is look up a teacher in a big directory somewhere. So to these people, my advice that I gave is perfect, and to the point. And if you think it sounded condescending or snarky, then that's YOUR issue, not mine.
And may I add that the next time you drop by an Internet message board, you try not to read emotions into the pixels, because 99% of the time, what you THOUGHT you heard was not what was said.
Sorry about the too-long quotes, Mark, I was on my way out the door and wasn't real focused on it.
Post Edited (2006-02-19 21:04)
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