nagel
Contributor
Mr. Sam Miller (Since we are being so formal and such)
Last year I traveled to Northern Iowa to visit the area where my father grew up. I toured the farmhouse my father grew up in and the one-room schoolhouse he attended. I spent hours visiting with my 98 year old great-aunt viewing pictures and talking about family history. Like you I also visited the cemetery where many of my ancestors are buried. This was a very informative trip and meant a lot to me. You as well as others have never heard about this trip because it was never posted on this or any other scuba diving forum. Why, because this trip had nothing to do with scuba diving. However, should I have posted the details of my trip it would have been perfectly logical for those reading it on a scuba diving forum to think, “One of our scuba diving brothers is coming to our area, maybe I should give him some information about the local diving”. If I had posted this, I would not have slapped anybody who responded by basically saying I don’t care about you or your local diving because I’m from Missouri. Do you get the point!
You have spouted much advice; let me return the favor. If you find it necessary to post details about a trip you are taking on a scuba forum, try and have some correlation to scuba diving. If you simply want to blog about your trip or discuss tracing your roots there many resources on the web – TripAdviser.com, Ancestry.com, RV.net to name a few.
Yes, I am proud of being from the Midwest. Thank you for crediting me for being a “self representative”. You see, the people in the Midwest are good, descent, family-oriented people. If you ever decide to lower yourself and come dive with us we will be gracious hosts. We are not the back-woods hillbillies that you may seem to think from Deliverance. If fact, most of us own our houses, drive cars, and some even have college degrees.
I don’t want to pick a fight with you – you don’t know me and I don’t know you. We belong to the same Scuba Brotherhood, but don’t insult us. You came across arrogant and over-the-top.
Since you also insist on boasting about the beautiful diving you have in California, I too enjoy the diving that is offered in the Midwest. We don’t have beautiful beaches and oceans; so, we dive what we have. But, just in case you are worried, I managed to save up my egg money, slaughter a few pigs, and sell some ‘coon hides to afford a trip to Bonaire in two weeks. I certainly will be thinking of you.
S. Nagel
Last year I traveled to Northern Iowa to visit the area where my father grew up. I toured the farmhouse my father grew up in and the one-room schoolhouse he attended. I spent hours visiting with my 98 year old great-aunt viewing pictures and talking about family history. Like you I also visited the cemetery where many of my ancestors are buried. This was a very informative trip and meant a lot to me. You as well as others have never heard about this trip because it was never posted on this or any other scuba diving forum. Why, because this trip had nothing to do with scuba diving. However, should I have posted the details of my trip it would have been perfectly logical for those reading it on a scuba diving forum to think, “One of our scuba diving brothers is coming to our area, maybe I should give him some information about the local diving”. If I had posted this, I would not have slapped anybody who responded by basically saying I don’t care about you or your local diving because I’m from Missouri. Do you get the point!
You have spouted much advice; let me return the favor. If you find it necessary to post details about a trip you are taking on a scuba forum, try and have some correlation to scuba diving. If you simply want to blog about your trip or discuss tracing your roots there many resources on the web – TripAdviser.com, Ancestry.com, RV.net to name a few.
Yes, I am proud of being from the Midwest. Thank you for crediting me for being a “self representative”. You see, the people in the Midwest are good, descent, family-oriented people. If you ever decide to lower yourself and come dive with us we will be gracious hosts. We are not the back-woods hillbillies that you may seem to think from Deliverance. If fact, most of us own our houses, drive cars, and some even have college degrees.
I don’t want to pick a fight with you – you don’t know me and I don’t know you. We belong to the same Scuba Brotherhood, but don’t insult us. You came across arrogant and over-the-top.
Since you also insist on boasting about the beautiful diving you have in California, I too enjoy the diving that is offered in the Midwest. We don’t have beautiful beaches and oceans; so, we dive what we have. But, just in case you are worried, I managed to save up my egg money, slaughter a few pigs, and sell some ‘coon hides to afford a trip to Bonaire in two weeks. I certainly will be thinking of you.
S. Nagel
BULL SH--ER.
