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ORIGINAL: brightspot

It Sucks big time, but does not surprise me at all in this
Capitalistic Country!

*Brightspot

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I'm sitting in my nice quiet suburban house, listening to my kids argue over someone touching their stuff, and thinking about turning up the AC because it's hot in my office.

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ORIGINAL: anopheles

Us: "We're trying to help the refugees and we were wondering if you might donate a couple of passenger vans so we can help people get to shelter."

Ass: "Well I'm not donating anything, but I'll give you 3% off the price of the rental."

Us: "We're not asking for free gas, we just want a break on the rental, we'll pay the gas out of our pockets."

Ass (with great contempt): "Well sorry, I have to make my money."

Me: "Fuck you." {click}

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ORIGINAL: GoddessDustyGold

As I read your dialogue, the first thing I see is the word "donate". That usually means "freebie". You were offered a discount. I was wondering why you changed that offer of a discount into a statement about free gas. That kind of came out of the blue, to Me.
But, as DesertRat said, unfortunately, in times such as this, a lot of scam artists come out of the woodwork who will try to take advantage of a situation. I know your heart was in the right place, but even as we advise people they should only donate through accredited organizations, the same types of advisements are in place for the many businesses, both big and small, who are being tapped now for any and all possible resources.
I see you are in Texas. Big state. Are you anywhere close to the several evacuee locations? Helping hands, as well as supplies, might be very welcome there.

I am in Austin, which is planned to be host to 5,000 evacuees. I actually work a mile or so from the main site for the relocated folks. The scene is somewhat surreal. My family has been gathering up anything that we can spare to donate, and i'll be dropping that stuff off tomorrow. I'm somewhat encouraged, I have contacted many of the volunteer organizations here in town, and they are overwhelmed with volunteers at the moment, so these poor people will be getting some help. but they will probably need volunteers for months, so I'm sure I will get my opportunity to help.

I appreciate the words of support from those that agreed with me, and also appreciate the words of dissent from those that didn't agree with my approach, as there were several points that were brought up that I had not thought about. In hindsight, I perhaps could have approached the situation more postively, but the images of people dying in the streets, and crawling through infected waters to save their lives and the lives of their children motivated me to the point of anger when that person displayed the impression that he just didn't care. But i'm a fiery individual, prone to fits of emotional outburst when dealing with a situation that I genuinely care about. So i'll do what I can to help those in need, and try not to curse anybody else out......but I an't makin any promises


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I perhaps could have approached the situation more postively, but the images of people dying in the streets, and crawling through infected waters to save their lives and the lives of their children motivated me to the point of anger when that person displayed the impression that he just didn't care. But i'm a fiery individual, prone to fits of emotional outburst when dealing with a situation that I genuinely care about. So i'll do what I can to help those in need, and try not to curse anybody else out......but I an't makin any promises

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ORIGINAL: BlkTallFullfig

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I perhaps could have approached the situation more postively, but the images of people dying in the streets, and crawling through infected waters to save their lives and the lives of their children motivated me to the point of anger when that person displayed the impression that he just didn't care. But i'm a fiery individual, prone to fits of emotional outburst when dealing with a situation that I genuinely care about. So i'll do what I can to help those in need, and try not to curse anybody else out......but I an't makin any promises

Your last part of this post made me laugh a little. I believe what Angel said is what you should take to heart= No mistakes, just lessons learned.
Have you seen BushClintonKatrinafund.org? I figured that's a legit place to donate (I trust those twom gentlemen on a higher level). M