On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jacob Meuser <jake...@sdf.lonestar.org>wrote:
> > ========================================================================= > > >Your analogy doesn't go far enough. Better: guests in a home being > > >asked for contributions and also being insulted, both by the hosts. > > > > Guess it depends on your recent culture, I can recall many times when me > and > > my mates would insult each other and put money on the table for pizza, > > I've done a fair share of couch surfing and had my couches surfed ... > since we're talking about guests, insults and contributions ... in > the context of a, shall we say, "sharing" culture. > > That's where I've seen you bro!! > the surfer is usually expected to contribute of some kind of kick down > to the situation, provide some kind of help to keeping the situation > going. after all, the surfer *is* getting quite a bit out of the > situation, or he wouldn't be there in the first place. and if the > situation isn't working out for the surfer, if he ain't feelin' > the vide, the best thing to do is simply move on. hanging around > crying about feeling dissed doesn't help anyone's situation. > > Amen.
