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Subject: Re: She did not ask your opinion!
Posted by Kevin on May 02, 1998 at 14:36:58:

In Reply to: Re: She did not ask your opinion! posted by BetsyCC on May 01, 1998 at 09:11:56:

: Some of you are so quick to show off that you do not even read the post!

Actually, I did read her post. I did not have any stories to share simply because of the fact that I would NOT bring any gliders to school due to a lot of the reasons I already gave.
It would be like you were getting ready to go out in the car you've had for a while, but this time, you want to take a new trip. "I love my car! it handles so good! It would never do anything unexpected! It's raining pretty hard out tonight and I'm already late. Gotta' go!", you tell your friends. Not thinking ahead as to how your car might react in different situations, you go speeding straight ahead in the rain on a dark night. What will happen next? You don't know for sure. No one does.
Should the people have only shared their stories about what happened to them while driving on wet, slick roads at night? Sure. If they have any. But common sense tells most drivers to be safe and think about how the car might react on those roads. Instead of taking all of the posts as personal threats, she should actually have thought about it.
Sure, everything COULD go fine when/if she brings it to school, but I would rather have her consider other likely things that don't all fall into the "warm and fuzzy happy ending" possibilities. What I posted was just some general things to think about. I do not know her or her glider and certainly could not know all of the different factors which would influence the glider's behavior the day it goes to school with her.

: She did not ask to be slammed, she did not even set herself up for it.

I do not feel that I slammed her. I simply posted some stuff that I thought she should truly consider instead of just jumping right in without looking.

: I think you all owe her an apology.

I haven't read all of the other posts in this thread yet, so I can only speak for my own post and I do not feel that I owe her an apology.

This has nothing to do with her age. Heck, I'm still young too. Instead of just thinking about what would be fun for me, I'd be sure to think about whether it would be fun and (more importantly) safe for the glider itself.

We all would like to take the gliders everywhere we go (and some do), but in environments like Middle School, it would just be too easy imo for the glider to get loose and/or get very scared/stressed. Again, I do not know her glider personally and how it behaves. I am just looking out for the glider and do not see why you or her would be against this.

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