kim_bowie wrote:Here's a bump. I hope new members enjoy this story. This is also a statement to say that I am back on this site and no amount of censorship will keep me away.
GOOD!
Please don't think that because a few of us were rude to you that we ALL feel that way. I think you were a victim of a vocal (and crude) minority.
I'm willing to bet that most people do not believe most of MY True Tug stories either (though no one has said so yet even politely). I know how fantastic (and sometimes weird) they sound, and I don't believe all I read in the True Tugs forum myself (though I am citing no examples because I am sure of none). I even considered posting my stories in the fiction section so that people could compliment me on my vivid (if strange) imagination, but I felt I couldn't do that for something that really happened (truth IS stranger than fiction) and take credit for anything other than the way I told the story.
Why people would want to post fiction in True Tugs anyway (especially when there is an equally popular Fictional forum) is something I do not understand; perhaps because I can think of nothing to gain by it (I most certainly have no reason to bother lying to people about being strange). However, as long as people ENJOY my stories it does not bother me whether they believe that they happened or not. I know the truth of the matter and that's the important thing to me. Though the person who criticized you before should have been more polite about it; the crude way you were treated was dead wrong irregardless of the truth of the matter.
I hope you continue to give the rest of us the benefit of the doubt and ignore the vocally rude minority.
As for that story in question about the break-in (whether it was true or not doesn't matter a whit to me), MY only real criticism of it was that it seemed rather rushed; unlike the story posted here which was better written and more fun to read. The break-in srtory read more like a newspaper story than a TUG story. The story posted here proves you are capable of doing much better. I hope you will continue to do so.

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