Oh the joy...

Mother · 2004-08-03T12:59:17+00:00

... of having your home address and telephone number in all of theLand Rover comics.Not to mention being open and accessible to all of your members - evenproviding a sympathetic ear at 11.45pm on a Sunday night when the poordarlings haven't had 48 hour delivery service of their spare parts(not that spares is anything to do with me, but not to worry, eh?).The pleasure of fielding calls for all committee members when they'reon holiday is a sheer delight, as is being constantly on-call to helpmembers with their technical and mechanical problems.Many people could be mistaken for thinking that 'doing what you wereelected to do', i.e., running the "Membership Office" - sending out700 renewals each year, processing the returns and payments, sendingreminders, sending out renewed members' membership cards, processing100+ new members each year, stuffing envelopes and new membershippacks - simply isn't good enough. Quite right too IMO.Such euphoria cannot, surely, be topped?Well yes, it can...Our Spare Parts chap works seriously long hours, frightening shiftpatterns even by Victorian standards, and devotes what little sparetime he has left to enjoying his vehicles and serving our club andmembers. Every now and then though, we have to let him go on holiday,not to mention running his "life". At these times he doesn't do'providing spares'. I know, outrageous isn't it!Still, we can always call Martyn can't we? If we haven't got theservice we think we deserve, simply call Martyn and have a rant!Generally I will - as I said above, lend a sympathetic ear and try togently remind members that this is a voluntary club, run by volunteersin their valuable free time. Most often this is quite fine for mostmembers, however, once in a while ('once' in this case, meansincreasingly more frequent) someone really has to have a 'pop'.Well, today was one of those 'onces', and I lost my temper BIG TIME. first couple of minutes of the call were not recorded - thisdoesn't matter as I didn't do...

Oh the joy...

Aug 03, 2004 23 Replies

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Nikki Cluley 21 years ago

in article cetans$1n1$ snipped-for-privacy@titan.btinternet.com, Neil Brownlee at snipped-for-privacy@pccontrolNOSPAMsystems.com wrote on 5/8/04 1:55 pm:

Is this the one you've had made?

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Nikki Cluley 21 years ago

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Austin Shackles at snipped-for-privacy@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk wrote on 4/8/04 12:12 am:

I thought so too.

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Neil Brownlee 21 years ago

Nikki,

Yup ;-)

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Nikki Cluley 21 years ago

in article cevdoj$h4c$ snipped-for-privacy@hercules.btinternet.com, Neil Brownlee at snipped-for-privacy@pccontrolNOSPAMsystems.com wrote on 6/8/04 8:59 am:

very fetching. All you need now is a horse and a damsel in distress!

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