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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2767593" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I wish I could tell you how to fix it, but I just don't know. I thought your responses were intended to be humorous, and I do believe that your intentions were honorable, but I don't think some of them saw it that way. Part of the problem is that a bunch of them were already disaffected, which colored their point of view from the get-go. </p><p></p><p>The best example I can think of to explain it is like this. Years ago, I knew someone (we'll call him Bill) who'd had big problems with a big car dealer (I forget the name, so we'll call the dealer Alan Smithee) over a lemon that he bought there. He never met the guy whose name was on the dealership, only a couple of sales managers, but the whole mess ended up in court, and was an entirely Not Fun experience. So for his next car, Bill does a bunch of research and finds the exact car he wants at a dealership in Tulsa, so he goes up there to buy it. As he's getting ready to make the final deal, this dude walks up, smiles, sticks out his hand and says, "hey there, glad to meet you. I just bought this dealership--my name is Alan Smithee!" </p><p></p><p>It didn't matter that this was Bill's dream car, or that Alan Smithee was a big-time 2A supporter, a deacon in his church, and ran a no-kill animal shelter, or that Smithee never directly did anything bad to Bill--or even that Alan Smithee had figured out that there were problems in his dealership that he had promised to fix. All Bill could see was that he had a really bad experience with Alan Smithee's other dealership, and now he was dealing with the same guy again, so it just soured the whole experience and he ended up walking on the deal.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, it's not a perfect analogy, and there are some artistic embellishments to make the point (f'rinstance, I don't know that Smithee was a decent guy at all, though I'm pretty sure you are), but I'm hoping everyone can see the point here--there are good and honorable people on both sides if this deal, but they just don't see eye to eye. Maybe it'll all work out in the end (I hope so), but for now, it's just too raw for some.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2767593, member: 26737"] I wish I could tell you how to fix it, but I just don't know. I thought your responses were intended to be humorous, and I do believe that your intentions were honorable, but I don't think some of them saw it that way. Part of the problem is that a bunch of them were already disaffected, which colored their point of view from the get-go. The best example I can think of to explain it is like this. Years ago, I knew someone (we'll call him Bill) who'd had big problems with a big car dealer (I forget the name, so we'll call the dealer Alan Smithee) over a lemon that he bought there. He never met the guy whose name was on the dealership, only a couple of sales managers, but the whole mess ended up in court, and was an entirely Not Fun experience. So for his next car, Bill does a bunch of research and finds the exact car he wants at a dealership in Tulsa, so he goes up there to buy it. As he's getting ready to make the final deal, this dude walks up, smiles, sticks out his hand and says, "hey there, glad to meet you. I just bought this dealership--my name is Alan Smithee!" It didn't matter that this was Bill's dream car, or that Alan Smithee was a big-time 2A supporter, a deacon in his church, and ran a no-kill animal shelter, or that Smithee never directly did anything bad to Bill--or even that Alan Smithee had figured out that there were problems in his dealership that he had promised to fix. All Bill could see was that he had a really bad experience with Alan Smithee's other dealership, and now he was dealing with the same guy again, so it just soured the whole experience and he ended up walking on the deal. Obviously, it's not a perfect analogy, and there are some artistic embellishments to make the point (f'rinstance, I don't know that Smithee was a decent guy at all, though I'm pretty sure you are), but I'm hoping everyone can see the point here--there are good and honorable people on both sides if this deal, but they just don't see eye to eye. Maybe it'll all work out in the end (I hope so), but for now, it's just too raw for some. [/QUOTE]
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