People wear me out...

You know, I can be contrary and argumentative. However, it seems that for some, that is the only way they know how to be. It's truly exhausting when you're reading a message board with people that can hide behind a screen name, and they use that annonymity to constantly rail against one member in particular, followed closely by a second member. Oddly enough, the two that get hammered upon (who certainly can be annoying, so I'm not saying that some of it isn't "deserved") use their actual name and EVERYONE not only knows who they are, but could likely spot them at a distance if they were to see them in the community. What likely makes it more tiresome for me is that I know who two of the "mystery men" are! They've sat at my table for dinner, drank my beer/wine, swam in my pool, and I've gotten the son of one of them off to school in the a.m. (feeding him breakfast and taking him to the bus). It kind of changes my opinion about them.

It just gets weary reading negative, contrary, argumentative posts so I've lately been "lurking" and thus when I post, it's after careful consideration cuz I have to log in to the site to add my $.02