Dear Doc, While I am in a relationship - I am not married - in the conventional sense of the term in any case - and I was wondering if you could explain to me why I always get a warm, fuzzy feeling when ever I read George's: "My wife and I applied for that card but were turned down even though we both have high FICO scores and have had credit since 1972 with never a late payment..." I also get that same warm, fuzzy feeling whenever George writes; "UNLESS YOU'RE GEORGE!" Is there a psychological explanation for these strange feelings? Please advise, quickly, thank you Mark LA P.S. To George - you da man!!!!
OT~~~Mark LA...are you going to have my new credit card at LAX on 06/22/02 for my LIMO DRIVER TO PICK UP??? UNITED AIRLINES... MY CORPORATE JET USES THE UNITED TERMINAL...
George presents as a self-deprecating, avuncular, non-threatening father figure. Apparently you got along well with your father. Hence, the warm fuzzy. I, on the other hand, did not get on well with my dad, apparently from birth until around age 37. (I'm 41 now. Something "broke" in the last few years, and I can now tolerate him very well without descending into the hellish past, something I count as a victory for personal growth, lol. Seriously.) Since I don't share your frame of reference, I confess that George's postings have never made me feel warm or fuzzy. (Sorry, George.) In fact, for my first six months on this board, whenever George would complain about not getting another card but would fail to remind everyone that he already had $100K in revolving credit and that maybe THAT was the reason and that it had nothing to do with his good FICO scores or Rodney Dangerfield, etc., etc., LOL, I found myself feeling compelled to argue the point. During that period, I'm sure that George felt nothing warm about my posts either. I finally got past that. George is, of course, a very nice guy whose presence here is enjoyed by everyone. It was my problem -- mostly due to my history. Ok, I realize you were half-joking about wanting an answer. But you got one regardless, heh. Oh, by the way, if I'm wrong about your history being different from mine, well, that's why we don't do analysis and therapy on computer bulletin boards. In that case, your response is due to some other historical attachment I don't know about, LOL. Ce'st la vie. Doc
Thanks for the uplifting thread....after having mayonaise squirted all over my 3-week-old car on Sunday night and two of my tires slashed last night, I needed a grin.
DOC! thanks for your post Actually - I don't get along all that well with my dear old dad (I'm also not all that crazy about me mum either - but that's a different story) so i'm not sure if that analysis works in my case - i guess i'm going to have to set up a private appt - how much do you charge, btw - and is there a creditnetters discount? Re GEORGE I think that aside from the fact that GEORGE is a warm fuzzy kinda guy - I'm guessing it's the underdog thing - I immediately feel empathy for someone who answers posts with; "UNLESS YOUR GEORGE!' yeah - i kinda figured out that GEORGE probably has a huge credit line - but it didn't bother me. I just like the "unless" phrase because it has that "why me" feeling (even if it's not justified) that we (or at least I) can relate to. TO GEORGE: I hope it doesn't bother you that you have become the topic of this personal psychological evaluation. I, for one, thnk that you - GEORGE - are da man!
Hmm, Creditnetter's discount, that may work, LOL. I'll look forward to hearing "the rest of the story" within the actual therapeutic frame. Doc
Doc i know you're not in Los Angeles (Texas?) maybe we can set up an email therapy thing for myself and other creditnetters in need - for a price, of course. Also - TRUST ME - I can get you LOTS of clients from the LA area
cause old people have wisdom I want now, so I kinda get on their good side to sponge off them, Its like keeping a little part of them inside me cept I benefit alot and they dead in ground. <new generation thought patterns kicking in> Actually it was supposed to be funny, but I guess you old guys can't take it from us whippersnappers?
old...???? >we wrote term papers based on notecards taken from texts, no xerox machines >the latest and greatest typewriters had a cartridge that you put in and out to whiteout a mistake on the paper you were typing > three channels of TV >22cents a gallon for gas, and we didn't have to choose leaded or unleaded >there were only 3or4 types of ballpoint pens and we actually had to sharpen pencils (unless you were an engineer and used a mechanical pencil for drawing) >>slide rules, no calculators (not invented until around '73 I think, cost $megabucks) >>computers used punch cards to load data mattr, I am very sorry about your car. what happened? was it personal? you know what I mean, or was it just parked in the wrong place at the wrong time. I remember reading all your posts about how hard it was to get your financing...
