TRAIN CLUB MEETING & A BRUISED EGO

Thursday, January 11, 2007

TRAIN CLUB MEETING & AND A BRUISED EGO

tonight (as is every 2nd tuesday of the month) was the OK N-RAIL (OKlahoma N-scale model RAIL club) model train club meeting.
this is truely a craig-thing.

i go for the bbq, to be honest. and endure sitting thru the clubs 2 hours of updates on the clubs this' and thats. to me..QUITE BORING. but i go to support craig. hes an N-scale model train enthusist.

im slowly inching into the model train thing as well..i like the z-scale size (smalles they offer in model train stuff). craigs trains the next size up from mine.

at anyrate, we went as a family.

and they did thier regular routine of this-ing and that-ing. and alot of blah blah blah..lol

at the end, i went up to rick isleman (a member) and told him a few months back at another meeting that the president (steve hanson) had informed me he THOUGHT that there were 2 corner module pieces (naked--meaning nothings on them, no track, or scenery) sitting at a former members home (who has passed away).
immediaitly when i stated that steve had told me to go to rick, rick told me to go back to steve...whom then walks up to the conversation asking why his name was mentioned. basicaly..what were we discussing.

i began to speak, explaining the issue and steve mentioned he didnt recall he had even told me to ask rick...i reminded steve, that was a common occurance and theme i had dealing with him...lack of memory.

so, i continued, and he quite abrasivley stated that right as i started to speak was about the time he "tuned me out anyway".
i was shocked. how rude! i didnt say anything offensive to him. he has a lacking memory, obviously he cant remember he does because we always have to repeat the same thing every single time we are talking about the subject im refering to (but not mentioning here).
i looked at him with an intense anger, and im sure the expression on my face read volumes to him.
he wanted to know what was said about him and why...
i expressed misgivings about his off-attitude
he still wanted to know and acted as if he was in a hurry..
i told him he was rude and what he said was uncalled for.

he had a half-hearted attempt at an appology for me and i stated he needed to listen to me before he interupted me, for me to be able to tell him the entire thing.

so, i said it.

then he says to me...
"oh, those corner modules arnt there anymore. lynn and i have been there since and they arnt there."

all of that, to come to the point of: they arnt there anyway.

i had to be belittled, and stand up for myself...over..nothing.

so, well have to make them for MY train guage, now.
sure would have been nice if steve could have rememberd i wanted to inquire about them and had thought (if he had remembered) to email me so id not have to deal with what i delt with tonight.

just to note..this want the 1st time steves been abrasive with me for no reason. this incident makes 2 times. he really makes it hard for me to WANT to pay membership for thier club.

usually, steves a really nice fella. funny, and interesting. but theres times when he just isnt that same person and he unloads this OTHER person onto me without warning. he dished that same one out again tonight. i didnt appreciate it. it wanst even in a private setting, it was with several other members around.

MICHELLE

Posted by MICHELLE WILLIAMSON at 11:23 PM