OK, I guess none of you guys remember that ROM I didn't even get to wheel at all. You wanna complain about standing in the rain.... I guess you don't remember me staning in the pouring, freezing rain handing out prizes while everyone was standing under those tents by a fire. Remeber that now? Yes, we were in the camper trying to figure out what to do. Rene, I remember you throwing a fit and saying the samething out there at Barnwell but you were not there when we asked everyone else what they wanted to do. We even asked if everyone wanted to go into town and go to a restaurant to do the raffle or stay there. The people that WERE at the camp fire said they wanted to stay there and do the raffle there. When you heard that, you "acted" like that was fine with you.
Also, do you not remember me having to go back out to Barnwell, in the freezing snow, and work on my XJ some more JUST so I could get home? Even after I spent weeks trying to get it ready and doing repairs on the way out there. You think ROM sucked for all of you, what about me and my family? It's was supposed to be my little dude's first wheeling trip. So on that note, save the pitty party for another forum.
Not all of us can wheel all the time. To me there is NO good wheeling spots within 100 miles of my house. Yes there are little mud holes that say they are OR parks but to me they are a waste of time, money and fuel to get out there. Then there is real life issues that come up. Like I can not go this weekend because my plant will be in the middle of moving locations and I have to be up and crushing by noon on Monday. I guess people dont think work, family and other things come before wheeling.
Second, this chapter is TOO BIG to please everyone. I guess you forum users dont understand that. Meet and greets don't really work to well. I used to hold M-n-G's at my house all the time. Most of the time same it was people that showed up. No new faces hardly ever made the trip even if they lived localy. I have had people drive for hours to come to my house in the past for M-n-Gs. When is the last time a forum user tried to hold a M-n-G on here? Been a while huh? I also post up a meet and greet in xjtalk, no one from there showed at my house either, well Reene did, but no one else. So I really think that is another mute point there.
As for the user / member issue, all I have to say is atleast by being members we are giving back to the sport we love so much. By being a member you support many org's that try their hardest to keep trails open for us to use. And most of the people that ARE members on here do not trash where they wheel at and leave the place better than the way they found it.... Not many other OR forums even try and help out like
does.
Next time someone wants to chime in and they think they know how to do things... think before you type.
If you USERS see an issue with things in this chapter and can do better.... man up, pay your membership and run for office yourself. Then you will see and feel what it is like to try and run the biggest chapter in
in your spare time without getting anything in return but whinning and crying like this. You all dont see half the hell that any of us BoDs have to go thru... this chapter, another chapter or even on a National level.
Yes, I agree that some of what I have typed here may not be fitting coming from the President of the RRC but my term is almost over and I have spent the last 2 years trying my hardest to get this chapter going for some lonely little forum users to come on here and bash the chapter, it's members and it's BoD. Atleast I kept the discussion here and didn't go to xjtalk and bash the people over there. Like I stated above... you wanna change it, then pay up and run for office.
