[the_old_crowd] Re: OT: Your posts and value in crisis

[Charme]

Barry said:

>Great idea!
>A captive audience!
>Lock 'em in a storm shelter and subject 'em to the twisty mentation of the
>toc weirdies.

>Mind you, some might consider it to be extreme mental cruelty.
>Hope there were plenty of Potter-qualified counsellors in residence, they'd
>probably be needed.

>More seriously, glad that the toc lot were able to provide some 
>entertaining
>diversion - no matter that it was unwitting.


Charme snorts:

Mental cruelty? More likely for those afflicted with the anti-Potter virus 
the torture of drawing and quartering preferable, methinks ;)  And actually, 
believe it not, it happened completely by accident.  Someone observed me 
reading email and chuckling, then thumb-typing notes.  He asked me if I was 
sending mail back home, and I said no, I was reading Yahoo groups email from 
a Potter group I belonged to and wanted to make a note to check one of the 
books when I got back home. He said "why wait? There're some right over 
there, which one you need?"  And so it begins...he tells a person, they tell 
5 people and all of sudden, you have a group discussion.  And that was the 
first night - we managed to get all the books from the donated stash and had 
a TOC/canon discussion for 2 hours before lights out. :) After the 3rd 
night, it got so that more people wanted to read this book or that one, and 
I happened to mention that during a call home the first week.  The second 
week, I got a delivery of 10 copies (paperback) of each book that my 
significant other and his friends bought or donated to surprise me for the 
shelter folks.  And he's not a Potterhead, so I can say I was definitely 
feeling the love. :)

>Now put your feet up and treat yourself to a large gin. You deserve it.

Why thank you! :) This is the 5th or 6th time I have performed this kind of 
service and I have to say, you realize just how very lucky you are and how 
insignificant your worries are when you are faced with people who have lost 
everything they have. Definitely gives you even more of a reason to be 
thankful at Thanksgiving. I know that sounds cliche, but I swear to you it's 
true. I'll do it again in a heartbeat.

Charme