Slainte and I have gotten to know each other here on SDMB and have decided we are both kinda nice folks, and so in keeping with a recent thread asking who has died and stuff, we have decided it would be great to keep in touch at least weekly to let each other know how we are doing.
There is no romance involved. I just think of this young lady as a friend that I would like to “keep in touch” with, and we both urge you to do the same if you live alone and consider SDMB your “family”.
Anyway… Just as I will not dive without a “buddy”, I now no longer have to wonder if anyone will miss me if I get sick or something worse happens to me. Slainte is my buddy! (And I got her permission before posting this!)
Yep the basic idea is that my IRL friends and family probably don’t know enough about the SDMB to post if something happened to me… as sad as that is to think about, it’s reality.
So, get a buddy. Call or E-mail them weekly and make sure they’re OK.
Thanks, Quasi. I’m honored to count you (and a few other Dopers) among my friends.
Slainte is definitely, as we say here in the south, “good people”. I feel priviledged to have gotten to know her, and look forward to continuing our friendship.
I like the buddy system idea, though. After the passing of choopah, I was telling my wife about it, and she mentioned that she would have no way of telling my Netfriends what’d happened if I were to become organically inactive. I mean, what if lieu had a disgruntling bowel movement, and didn’t return. Oh sure, Elvis gets the pub, but none of us do.
Qadgop the Mercotan and I discovered we have a RL connection (a friend of mine goes to his church), so one of us would probably get notified if the other met an untimely demise.
The same is true of me, also. Tried to get my brother to register over the weekend so he could tell the people here if something happened to me. No go, as he said he didn’t use message boards ever. (well, there is one that he posts on very occasionally, but that’s for church stuff)
So I guess I will now have the pleasure of trying to select at least one “buddy” from among all you kind folk out there. Don’t know who it is as yet, but I guess I will see.
Maybe we should have a sign-up sheet. (Didn’t someone have that idea already?) Better yet, a buddy-matching service that would match you with someone with similar interests/location/posting times and frequencies. Like an Internet dating service, only not so much.
Or, we could draw names out of a hat, which would probably be just as effective.
My buddy would most likely be **Xploder, ** because he’s one of my best friends IRL, and he does live here in the same city as me. If he wasn’t notified immediately, he’d at least read my obit in the paper.
BeagleDave and I are blocks away from each other and on the other side of the river there is Veb and her new housemates.
I also asked a friend of mine to register the next time we are online together in case something happens to me.
Not really sure too many would notice my demise but it would be nice to think I would be missed just a bit.
I am in total agreement. Slainte, in addition to being an absolute sweetheart, is a total hottie-pants. Why do the good ones have to be all the way in South Carolina?
Wow - a thread with my name in the title.
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