It has come to my attention today that a rebuttal to Darren's choice of words,
"use of vulgarity towards my wife" was required.
First of all, it is not my intent to reignite any fires, or dig up anything. I know people have a need to pick and choose words to pay attention too, and others to ignore so their cause/needs are met more efficiently in their own mind. So please, if you read any of this, read all of this.
My only intent here is to clear my name, restore whatever reputation I had before this thread, or to "soften Darren's blow" so to speak.
The words I used in the email that Darren refers too, were so far from how he described, I would never have thought how people might actually perceive what I said. I was at another forum member's house today, finishing up a project (He will remain nameless unless he feels so inclined to post here). The things that he thought I said is what really made me decide to post this (name calling and things of that nature). I had originally planned on just letting it go, but even the forum member suggested that I attempt to clean this up.
Below this paragraph is the actual line from the email I wrote. The email was not addressed to anyone specifically, except that it was sent to the address that is listed under Darren's wife's name, which I knew that they both read.
*edit* I was only going to post the relevant line with the only form of cursing in it, but I thought it over and figured any omission of the email might be thought of as hiding something else. The email is in its entirety below.
I got my burner kit today, and my 5 foot propane hose.
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The POL fitting, that was missing from my first order...was not in the box.
The instructions that are supposed to come with the venturi kit...were not in the box.
If I didn't need the instructions to put it together, I'd say screw it, so I can just put this bullshit behind me. You can keep the damn POL fitting and my $3.95 if it means I can stop stressing about it...........EVEN THOUGH I ordered it because the venturi kit requires it.
I'm completely overwhelmed by this whole experience. I don't even know what to say....please get that stuff to me ASAP, so I can use what I ordered 6 weeks ago.
Brent
As you can see, this falls quite short of what our society as come to define as vulgarity. I don't want to see definitions from Webster's or dictionary.com. Once again, this was a suggested course of action by another forum member, to me, with the sole purpose of protecting my reputation. I think highly of this person, and consider him a friend. His advice was sound, and made sense.
AGAIN - my ONLY intent here is to protect myself. Not to attack, address, bring up, or blow up any other issues Darren and I had between the two of us as people, buyer, seller or any other form, shape or function of the previous words. It is also NOT my intent to have other buyers speak of negative or positive experiences with Darren, because that is irrelevant at this point.
I am willing to discuss things further with anyone, but if discussion occurs here, by phone, email or anywhere else, I will not speak negatively about anyone involved, and will refer to this situation only, and ONLY the vulgarity portion of this situation. Parts, costs, time frames, people, grammar, etc etc etc are all irrelevant, and will not be discussed by me. This isn't a video game forum, and I don't play the "last word" games.
I hope I beat the appropriate dead horses with this one, so my purpose here is as clear as glass. If there is any confusion, please let me know and I will do my best to clarify anything needing clarification.
Thanks,
Brent K
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