Unfulfilled Promises

[kingandy]

January has come and January has gone, and Maelstrom has failed to materialise. Allegedly the mailshot has/willsoonbe gone out, but that's just not good enough. We were promised January. I demand my money back!

It's something I've found myself saying a lot lately, but is no less true for it: if you give somebody something for free they get annoyed when you take it away. And even if you know it belongs to you - you were being generous letting them use it for a time - you feel bad about depriving them. Especially when they look up at you with their big, brown doe eyes and say "Oh please Andy, I won't be much longer, I just have to finish chatting to everyone then you can have your computer back..."

Really, it's like kicking a puppy. Which is why I found myself watching the X-Men movie last night. Sigh.

Comments

[delvy.livejournal.com]

It will be out soon. Last bit gets collected today or tomorrow I believe and that gets enveloped up and sent out. Should be posted tomorrow or wednesday witha bit of luck so I'd expect it to be through your letter box by/on friday.

You don't own it, you haven't paid for it and it's our ball so play nice :-)

[blue-room.livejournal.com]

Mark W: As regards getting something for free and then taking it away, I often amuse myself by imagining most of our users having to go cold turkey if ever we decided to turn Pagga off. But I'm not at heart a cruel man so this probably won't happen (unless we turn it off for laugh to see what happens and how many e-mails we get :)).
She needs a laptop and then you can just fight over the phoneline, until you get broadband. It's the only way our household will survive I'm thinking.