Well, since, I'm not in the area, I'm not nice to anyone all the time, I'm not PC, I'm not cool, and I didn't respond, I wouldn't have qualified for the count.
how coincidental. I was thinking, just last night, about a story a climbing friend of mine told me that happened when he was a rigger for ProSound or some such production company in Phoenix:
They were rigging a Lyle Lovett show and were told that Mr. Lovett's wife (at the time), Julia Roberts, would be backstage during the performance and that they were under strict orders to not look at her at any time. My friend said the poor pathetic prima donna had to withstand all the stagehands' stares the whole night...even going so far as staring and turning their heads toward her as they walked by. Talk about being all about yoself!
Hopefully, it's tongue-in-cheek as disrimination based on where a person is born is as silly as that based on sex, race, nationality, or any other circumstantial attribute of birth.
I don't know.
Maybe, JFK said it best in his inaugural address:
"Ask not what alpinism can do for you, ask what you can do for alpinism."
Or, maybe you're just one of those guys who see his wit as half empty instead of half full.
half-full