On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Malachi Kenney <kfringe@gmail.com> wrote:
You know that I was never planning to show for this -- I'm not much of a joiner, Buffy makes my teeth itch, and I live too damned close by to book a hotel that far away from a decent bar -- so I'm just an outsider looking in. What I see, though, is that anyone who stated their intention to go *before* Deb made that room commitment should, at the very least, book and pay for their room.
On May 7, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Deb Counts-Tabor wrote:
> We have only 12 room nights out of 40 booked. If I cancel right now, I will owe them $1500.
Your business went bust? Don't sweat it. You wound up in the hospital? Nobody is going to blame you. Deb planned to accommodate some cancellations.
If, on the other hand, you just decided not to go after all? Screw you. Pay what you promised.
Here's the thing, though. Some of us, including me, never really committed 100% to going. I said I'd do my best. And my best isn't going to be good enough. I can't make it. And I don't have $300 to spare to spare to book a hotel room I'm not going to use. When I said I would do my best to be there, I had no idea that Deb would owe the hotel money if things didn't work out. I feel terrible about it but I'm not sure what I can do to help rectify the situation right now. That's not from a lack of caring. It's due to a lack of resources.
Matt
"If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" - Shel Silverstein
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