adywan said:
Rattlehead, the one thing you have to understand is that the internet is full of nutters and we have had a lot of them come in here from time to time. And when someone who people know nothing about suddenly wants to meet up with people then suspicions are raised. There are some very strange star wars fans out there that . I have personally received death threats from some fans because i dared to meddle with George's creations And when you said in your first post that you would only talk about things in person and wanted peoples personal phone numbers you have to admit it did sound a little odd. We are in a forum after all so couldn't you have started talking about things in here first before asking for personal things like this? It would have come across a lot better.
Sorry Andywan. I've been overseas for a while and I forgot how paranoid Americans can be. I see your point, but I've also been too busy for bulletin boards (not just this one, but in general) for several years and forgot just how microscopic the scrutiny of every word of a post gets. I just don't have the time or desire to scrutinize the tone and wording of every post the way some people do here (or on boards in general). I guess my thinking is still in European mode and an invitation to a very public and crowded place where no one is possibly going to come to any harm didn't strike me as weird or creepy or anything, and a request for a mobile number to facilitate said meeting also didn't strike me as strange. As far as only talking about things in person... refer again to what I just said about scrutiny.