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ORIGINAL: kallisto

I've been on here about 6 years. I've met some really great people and have many more friends than I had before I joined. I've laughed and cried and shared and kept secrets. And wouldn't change that for anything.

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ORIGINAL: MariaB

This thread inspired me to start this thread.

I've been a part of CM/CS since its fledgling days. I watched it grow and blossom and I've witnessed it struggle and pull through some really tough times. I met my former partner of four years on here who is still one of my best friends and I met the love of my life and the man I went on to marry on here. Four years ago a group of us from here met up in a pub in London and from that social gathering, I have gone on to form some very firm friendships.

I have done my share of flouncing off this site in a huff; not because there was anything wrong with the site but because I can behave like a diva sometimes but the site, just like an old friend, has always drawn me back.

What is it you love about CS? How if anything, has CS changed your life?

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

... I no longer am a slave to chapstick.

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ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant

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ORIGINAL: kallisto

I've been on here about 6 years. I've met some really great people and have many more friends than I had before I joined. I've laughed and cried and shared and kept secrets. And wouldn't change that for anything.

And we've been staring at the same panties for six years. They've got to be pretty ripe by now... and in some circles that would make them very valuable.

Jus sayin

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ORIGINAL: Kaliko

FR

Is it okay to paste a previous post (in part) here? I think it fits. I posted this in 2013. Which was probably before I flounced so dramatically. (As far as flounce threads go, I do think mine ranks up there. LOL) Things are a little different these days, of course, but not so much that this doesn't still work.

I already have a favorite seat here. There are forums I automatically go to, and forums I avoid. I know I like to sit at the bar and check in with others in the Casual Banter thread. Often, it depends on who's sitting there when I get in. I know that I enjoy General Discussion and Ask a Submissive, and when I enter those rooms, the server knows me well enough to make my drink without asking and I'll usually like the music on the jukebox. If I've had enough liquid courage, I'll sometimes spend some time in Ask a Master. And if my drunk friend has dared me, I'll pop over into Ask a Mistress. I'll go to Intros when it's a slow night and I am just not ready to go home yet. Sometimes I get lost on my way to the bathroom and I wind up in Politics and Religion.

I know the regulars at this place. I know when I want to sit and have a few and chat, and when I want to hide in the corner with my book and just listen to what others have to say. There are a few I like and I will look for them when I enter. Mostly, though, it's the mix of voices and personalities that give me that sense of familiarity - a sense of comfort. It's easy to be here. I don't have to work at figuring out my favorite drink and I don't have to ask where to find the ladies room. Though, I don't feel like there is anyone saving a seat for me, and I don't feel like anyone will be yelling my name in excitement when they see me walk in. So it's surprising when, every now and then, a regular will stroll over to my table and acknowledge how well I tip.

There's a dance floor in the back room, and I hear people having fun in the Duck Lips thread, or Train Wreck, or Keeping Abreast, but I tend to not like the music there so much. I can almost never avoid jumping in, though, when I hear a group talking somewhere about vegetarianism or the NEA, and I'll sit down at their table with them and even pick at their food. And I will always stand in the doorway with a drink in my hand and watch Awareness because, well, he's my ride home.

It's nice to be able to come down to the bar for a few, hear what others may have to say, maybe talk a time or two about what's going on with me, and then...leave it there. It's sometimes disconcerting for me to know that many of the people here today have been here for years and know that I've gone through relationships and changes. Every now and then I wish I had changed my clothes or fixed my hair before coming into the bar, but then I think - if I can't be imperfect in a roomful of drunk strangers who likely won't remember me in the morning, then where can I be?

Every now and then I complain to the management. Sometimes groups get loud and rowdy, but I find that to be part of the draw of this particular bar, and I get a little miffed when someone is shut off. Once or twice there's been a shady character that I actually became somewhat scared of and I've asked someone to walk me out to my car. On the flip side, there have been a number of people that I've sat and talked to one-on-one in a quiet corner and those conversations have always been pleasant.