Come on X, get on the wagon and ride. We are a team. If I'm a lifer, you gots to be a Lifer too. Kinda like Martin and Lewis - you know  you're the straight guy and I'm the clown.

Al

Hey Adam, why don't you offer up some of that "Down Home" cooking like you did at Round Valley.

>Well C3Vr members here i go again!!!!!!!!!!!

    Bravo Butch!!!!!!!!!! I thought I was the only one with a big mouth and sometin to say. Gy gosh be darn say it. WE are sometimes forgetting that we are a member based group and maybe 100 is important to someone - but come on guys it's no big deal. If you have to offer specials to get the 100th than what about the 99 that got you there. If it wasn't for the 99 you wouldn't have 100. DUH I like being part of the group - who th h*** cares what number I am - I hope they know my name.   If I'm nominated-I won't run and if elected-I won't serve. (These comments were made on a soap box at 5th and Main) They do not reflect the opinion of everyone. Thank you for your support.

Ya know what...fine.  There won't be anything special for 100.  You're right...the 99 that came before are just as important.  It is neat to be the 100th.  Kind of like the 1,000,000th customer at McDonalds or something. Long before this topic came onto the forums, a member emailed me about being 100.  So apprently there is some interest in being number 100.  Adam Wartell2006-12-06 14:47:11

Well this just blows my mind Adam - I can't believe that some club members got their nose outta joint because we were going to put a little recognition to the 100th lifer?  Why?  Because that person is going to be made to feel a little more special then someone before them did?   Jeez thats a great reason not to do it isn't it.   I never would have guessed that anyone of us C3'ers would have that reaction - guess I'm the stupid one for suggesting it.  I don't know it just seemed to me it's not a big leap to see that recognizing Mr. or Mrs. 100 is also recognizing all of us because together we have grown this club into something very special.   Damn - I'm proud to be a lifer but I am also really proud of everyone else too.  So what if somebody is going to get a $25.00 gift certificate or a couple of t-shirts or some small reward plaque.   And we can't do that for the great reason that we didn't get it first?  Let's think about that for a second... huh?   Is that what this club is?     Adam I can see you are in a no win situation here - so don't do something nice (something that we could get a little press in the industry for our club with) because of a couple of sqeeky wheels.    Ain't that just the Christmas Spirit?

Ken,

Adam - the times we live in have brought to the surface two basic people traits that have now become so commonplace we scarcely notice them anymore.  The first is the failure for people to get involved - more then ever we see this everywhere, we live busy lives and just figure it's someone else's job to participate or to make the decisions.  But once a decision gets made.  The second aspect of our new human nature surfaces - it's this tendancy we all have to just bitch about anybody else's idea once it's out there.   I'm as guilty of this as the next guy so I am no one to talk - my message was little more that just doing the same thing complaining to the complainers so they could hear what they sound like.  As you have already learned leadership is a lonely spot.  When things go well you had nothing to do with it, when things go poorly it's all your fault.  Not that any of us have any better ideas - or not that any of us would want to do what you do - it's just that today it's more fun to throw water on an idea then it is to support it.   Bottom line - you have the job - so do what you think is the right thing to do - don't ask for permission (because few will stick their neck out to give it to you that means they might get criticized too)  and don't ask for opinion because you'll only hear everything that's wrong with your idea.  Is there ever anything wrong with just doing something?  Or is there lots wrong with just doing nothing?  Well, nothing is certainly safer - so lets do nothing - never re-elect anybody.