On 16 Feb 97, Carin M. Armlin wrote to John Giannini:
 CA> But, you've just out and out flamed me, and I'm going to demand an
 CA> apology.
You have it.  It was never my intention to flame.  However, I must confess 
that I felt attacked from you also.  If you go back and re-read some of your 
messages, they were quite critical of my "collector" notions.  In replying, I 
did try to be direct to the exclusion of politeness, but I never name called 
nor tried to flame.  If you felt that way, then I do summarily apologize.
 CA> For your information, I have been on disability for the past 2 years,
 CA> and prior to that, I was out of work for at least 3 years trying to
 CA> get on disability......
 CA> ......much less have enough to go out and buy "luxury" items such as
 CA> CDs, or books, or videos.
I can relate.  I have not worked since 1992 myself, and it has been a very 
hard struggle to survive.  My wife works, and keeps us afloat, but just 
barely.  It's hard for one person to support 2 people, especially in this 
area we live in.  We live in a relatively small Wine Country town with a big 
university of some 14000 students, all of whom are ready and willing to work 
for minimum wage.  Ergo, this is a "minimum wage town".  It's the type of 
town where, if a classified for a toilet cleaner comes out in the paper, 500 
people, all with resumes, apply.  That's the honest truth.  People gravitate 
towards open jobs like piranha, and it's this that makes it so hard to find 
work here.  The fact is, we take 6-8 months to buy the 10 or so movies we 
get; we do it a little at a time, and we do it only so we *can* generate a 
bit of extra money later down the road - just so we can just survive. That's 
always been my motivation.  If I had tons of money, I'd never bother doing 
that.  In a town with little work, one has to sometimes be inventive just to 
survive, and the artificial market Disney creates via their moratorium policy 
is an opportunity we can't afford to pass up.
 CA> So before you even pass judgement on me as to why I waited so
 CA> long to buy the Aladdin video, just try to reaccess (sp) MY personal
 CA> situation. You know NOTHING about me, just as I know NOTHING about you.
As I said, you have my apology.  I didn't mean to come off in a mean spirited 
way.  I was a bit angry, to be sure, because I felt like I was being over- 
harshly criticized, but it was never my intent to cross the line and flame 
you.
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