This reminds me of when I was a small child. My parents used to take my brothers and myself to a Carvel's ice cream stand on Pulaski Hwy in Baltimore every week or so and this was always quite a treat for us. Well, one evening my parents hauled us into the car and then on out to the local Carvel's where we were shocked to find that it had gone out of business and closed up. We were flabbergasted! How could they DO that when we bought ice cream there all of the time?!? I kept turning my head away from the building and then looking back, hoping that my eyes were just playing tricks on me.
This had a lasting impression on me. It was the first time in my life that a business going under had an impact on me. I just could not believe something like that could happen. It was just as unbelievable to me as it would if the moon had suddenly just grown a purple smiley face on it.
But I did come to understand it as I learned that the universe just did not revolve around me. Sometimes what you want has no influence over reality. It wasn't enough that my family went to that Carvel's every week or two. It was not enough to keep them in business, no matter how much we liked it and wished otherwise. Obviously not so many people as I would have hoped liked Carvel's ice cream as much as my family did. So they just could not stay in business and did what was best for them, not me. And that abandoned building was there for quite a long time, seemingly just taunting me with those childhood memories of all those ice cream cones. For a very long time I always hoped it would come back, but it never did.
Anyway, silly memories, yeah, I know. But like I said, an impression on me. And a lesson. A lesson that the world really doesn't care about what I want.
I certainly do not want this site to go away, neither. Not after all the time and effort I put into it over the past, what, 16 or so years. But if things continue the way they are, I predict that if I do close it down, very few people will even notice, much less care.
So if you all want this site to survive, YOU have to help make the effort for that to happen. Certainly you must have something to talk about? Give other people something to read about and hopefully incentive to respond and maybe talk more about something else.
Seriously, this site isn't going to survive by merely hoping that someone else does all the posting.
So do I need to start talking about politics and guns again? :laugh: