Hi
Just have to put 2 cents in. I am not real sure if this subject is a
spoof, so won't go there, but must say as a 'new letterboxer' , I have
begun to feel sorry for the regular first's we keep seeing. My feelings
are ,"how sad, that they miss all the lovely stamps and messages that
always follow them." I love readiing thoughts people leave and enjoy
the stamps. No way would I like to be 'first'
Butterfly

wandaandpete wrote:

>Still no one "fessing up" to the red-tongued hitcher kidnapping
>episode, although a few more hints and deflections have been cropping
>up lately. We did hear yesterday from D+M, who wrote that they "would
>have no reason to take [the hitchers]". Well, that may or may not be
>true - most people take them just because they are THERE, and, indeed,
>that is what they are there FOR - to be taken preferably nicely for a
>little spin! D+M had also told us on several previous occasions that
>going back to known letterbox sites was how they had frequently found
>hitchers in the past!
>
>At any rate, had it not been for last month's uncanny confluence of
>hitcher count and complaint that threw me off track, D+M would
>definitely have been our prime suspects in this recent mystery case
>(or "kidnapping caper", as D+M referred to it yesterday!) They had,
>in fact, pulled a similar stunt on Aug.31st of last year at the 40
>Swans mystery in SE CT - right down to the very same type of stuck-
>out-tongue-faced drawings that now appear on the red-faced stamps!
>
>Of course, D+M had long been aware (as had others) of how poorly I
>relate to the need some people seem to have of proclaiming their
>firstness at letterbox sites (as if that were the main point of the
>hobby!) After all, I would think that who got there first should be
>quite obvious from the date and page in the logbook, and that the
>focus on proclaiming firstness would seem to be only marginally
>appropriate for children or excited newcomers!
>
>Anyway, at 40 Swans, D+M decided to do a particularly flamboyant
>spoof on some of the more obnoxious features of this "HAHAHA" -
>"we're first" behavior, then sent me an e-mail message to go see,
>get a good laugh, and then pull them out! After I went and made
>copies, I wrote back to them that the caricatures were "hilarious"
>but that I would leave them for others to see and "have a good laugh"
>at as well, unstated being that the examples themselves should serve
>as just that kind of nasty juvenile behavior to be avoided!
>
>Well,it certainly would never have occurred to me back then that D+M
>might ever stoop to a repeat of such behavior or that those past
>actions of theirs might actually spawn "copy cats"! That is what we
>thought happened on Feb.15th. Now we just don't know WHAT to think of
>people anymore. I guess this is why it is so important for all of us
>to try to set GOOD examples and overlook the BAD ones!
>
>Sorry once again for having to expose this last bit of nastiness, but
>with no other apology or explanation forthcoming, I felt that these
>things really should come out and hopefully put an end to this story!
>
>Wanda
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Hi Butterfly,

We are definitely with you on this one; we don't like being first
either and often go back to a box just to read people's entries. The
only reason we felt that we had to get to boxes first for awhile was
to try to set a good example about writing pleasant messages rather
than proclamations about being first or about beating so-and-so. We
have never once written about being first and we are very pleased that
many others are also following that example.

Pete

I guess I missed most of this one. From what I can get out of this is
there a big thing about being first to a box. It's nice once in a
while but who cares? Does it matter if you are the 50th? As for
kidnapping hitchhikers I guess I don't understand what that is all
about at all. If some one gets a hitchhiker and puts it back into
circulation good. If they look into boxes they already visited and
had already stamped, so what? No big deal. The sticking out the
tongue stamp, thats just and childish. In the immortal words of
Rodney King "Can't we all just get along?"

--- In letterbox-usa@y..., "wandaandpete" wrote:
>
> Still no one "fessing up" to the red-tongued hitcher kidnapping
> episode, although a few more hints and deflections have been
cropping
> up lately. We did hear yesterday from D+M, who wrote that
they "would
> have no reason to take [the hitchers]". Well, that may or may not
be
> true - most people take them just because they are THERE, and,
indeed,
> that is what they are there FOR - to be taken preferably nicely for
a
> little spin! D+M had also told us on several previous occasions
that
> going back to known letterbox sites was how they had frequently
found
> hitchers in the past!
>
> At any rate, had it not been for last month's uncanny confluence of
> hitcher count and complaint that threw me off track, D+M would
> definitely have been our prime suspects in this recent mystery case
> (or "kidnapping caper", as D+M referred to it yesterday!) They had,
> in fact, pulled a similar stunt on Aug.31st of last year at the 40
> Swans mystery in SE CT - right down to the very same type of stuck-
> out-tongue-faced drawings that now appear on the red-faced stamps!
>
> Of course, D+M had long been aware (as had others) of how poorly I
> relate to the need some people seem to have of proclaiming their
> firstness at letterbox sites (as if that were the main point of the
> hobby!) After all, I would think that who got there first should
be
> quite obvious from the date and page in the logbook, and that the
> focus on proclaiming firstness would seem to be only marginally
> appropriate for children or excited newcomers!
>
> Anyway, at 40 Swans, D+M decided to do a particularly flamboyant
> spoof on some of the more obnoxious features of this "HAHAHA" -
> "we're first" behavior, then sent me an e-mail message to go see,
> get a good laugh, and then pull them out! After I went and made
> copies, I wrote back to them that the caricatures were "hilarious"
> but that I would leave them for others to see and "have a good
laugh"
> at as well, unstated being that the examples themselves should
serve
> as just that kind of nasty juvenile behavior to be avoided!
>
> Well,it certainly would never have occurred to me back then that
D+M
> might ever stoop to a repeat of such behavior or that those past
> actions of theirs might actually spawn "copy cats"! That is what we
> thought happened on Feb.15th. Now we just don't know WHAT to think
of
> people anymore. I guess this is why it is so important for all of
us
> to try to set GOOD examples and overlook the BAD ones!
>
> Sorry once again for having to expose this last bit of nastiness,
but
> with no other apology or explanation forthcoming, I felt that these
> things really should come out and hopefully put an end to this
story!
>
> Wanda