Why I no longer attend Saturday night dinner and unsubscribed from the B.V.A.R.A. newsletter

January 15, 2008 by kb8sfc.

Well here is the deal with political crap I was referring to back in October, which led to my lack of interest in Amateur Radio…

It’s a shame too see and hear what has happened. Saturday night dinner has been tainted and is no longer enjoyable. It used to be an informal group of guys who occasionally brought their wives or girlfriends getting together where we decided as adults. We could get together shoot the breeze with little difficulty and not have twelve conversations going at once. Occasionally we would have a large group but it was rare. Now it’s a huge group every damn week not to mention the added annoyance of “motor mouth” children being brought along. I’m sure the “spearheader” had good intentions when he organized the BVARA membership drive at Pizza Joe’s back in July but it seems at least for Saturday night dinner it’s was the beginning of the crap. I miss the days of the informal group I enjoyed myself. I had fun with 4 to 6 of us at the table. Now it’s too big and worried about pleasing everyone and not offending anyone.
Well guess what? I AM OFFENED. I’ve been part of this group for about the last five years and what has become of it borders on a disgrace. Although I don’t blame the BVARA as a whole for what has a happened, I do blame several of its members. One tried to dictate their wishes to the Saturday night group, which then resulted in a knee jerk reaction of political correctness. So now in a kindergarten fashion the restaurant has to drawn from a hat. I’ve even been referred to as “Hitler” for disagreeing with the hat.

Has anyone apologized to me? No. Will I be sending 2008 dues to the BVARA? No. Will I be coming to dinner again time soon? No. Will anyone care? Probably not…

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