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said I was done with the thread from hell last night and still plan to abandon it and simply allow the continued attacks against me go unanswered. Since your response to my last post came after my departure, I thought I'd address it privately.
I specifically remember your response to my gracious (and far from "arrogant') decline of "bomb" offers. You said your profession as a private detective made you understand where I was coming from with concerns for protecting personal information, adding how much trouble you'd be in if certain people were to learn yours. For you to retroactively suggest that I was being "arrogant" strikes me as very petty, particularly when I gave you the reasoning behind my caution. A little over a year ago, I met up with a guy I talked to online and am certain I would have been raped had it not been for my roommate tagging along at a distance and barging in on the guy when he was getting creepy.
Contrary to your suggestion, I don't believe angering and "trying to prove a point" to CC86 on a message board puts me at the kind of risk that revealing personal info on a website frequented by hundreds of guys does. For all the condescending talk of how much "life experience" everybody here has compared to me, I can safely say that's one area where my level of "life experience" transcends yours, and until you've been through a situation as frightening as I was, I would submit you're in no position to judge my decision, let alone label it as "arrogant."
Aside from that and the CC altercation of the last two days, what other examples of "arrogance" are you suggesting that I've displayed? I do aggressively discuss political matters and did so on a thread that expired months ago, but have talked almost exclusively about cigars since. Meanwhile, CC86 has pistol-whipped how many dozen people with his trademark condescension? And has driven away how many new members branded "immature" who may have become constructive contributors.
I suppose the "raising Republican blood pressure" comment was arrogant, but I balk at CC's suggestion that if I had merely added a "smily" to it, the crisis would have been averted and we'd all still be friends. You'll notice the rest of that post was more or less concurring with his point of Gore losing his home state, which negates his tired suggestion that I "got caught trolling and am now trying to backpedal". So we both agree the blood pressure comment was marginally arrogant, but does it rise to the level of "slinging mud"....or qualify me for "snotty bitch" status? Frankly, I don't care that he resorted to juvenile namecalling and wasn't even really "offended" by it, but I wasn't gonna be publicly disrespected by a bully without firing back. It's not my nature, and I don't suspect it would be yours either if we were talking about anybody other than your online friend who sends you cigars.
As for your insistence that your wife and mother would never be the victim of one of CC's assaults, huh? This guy attacks just about everybody on the board. Why would he draw the line with them? Why is that inconceivable? Even if my demeanor was marginally pompous with the said comment (and again, that's quite a stretch to say that comment was "acting like a fool"), are you saying that your wife would never resort to that level of sarcasm?
If I had it to over again, would I have not taken CC's bait by commenting on his pointless trolling about the 2000 election? Of course not. But I can assure you that even if this altercation didn't happen Friday night, it was coming at some point. I have opinions that differ from CC's and he can't handle people who disagree with him without being fiercely disrespectful. The only way to have avoided his wrath would have been never posting, which is no more of an option to me than avoiding going outdoors for fear of getting beaten up by street toughs.
And by the way, "teaching him a lesson" are your words. I said I wanted to put him in his place. As I noticed, that was a futile goal as he thrives off conflict and has limitless time to devote to continually smearing people and declaring his victory even when he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
I guess the only thing about this incident that really got to me is how standing up to the bully has inspired the masses to rally to the side of the bully. Basil's point is well taken that my initial posts flaming CC were more effective because I didn't have any emotional stake then. It was only when GROWN MEN looked at the evidence of his unprovoked assault and still rallied around the "tough guy with the motorcycle" like insecure groupies rather than at least acknowledge that the power was in his hands TWICE to walk away from this fight without a bruise. And I still don't understand why he's entitled to be arrogant while nobody else is. Care to elaborate on that double standard....or are you seriously suggesting he's not arrogant?
