Anyone traveling US->London in the next 2 weeks? (posted 30 April 2012)

If you are, and you're willing to do me a simple favour, drop me a PM please. I promise, it's nothing illegal. 

I think you might get more replies if you said what said favor was?  It makes it more suspicious if you're not gonna post what it is.. at least to me. o__O I'm traveling Wednesday to the UK kinda interested to know what exactly you want done..?

It's Courtney. It's not going to be anything bad. 

I've volunteered, it's just a bag of flour separated into lots of baggies for convenience, totally legit!  

In my opinion, ManyBoo seemed keen to assist Courtney, but didn't want to get caught in an awkward place if the request turned out to be something weird. Not that I think Courtney's request would be in anyway sinister, but this is the internet, so you never really know. It's a totally legitimate question. I don't understand why it was wrong for her to ask. 

In my opinion, ManyBoo seemed keen to assist Courtney, but didn't want to get caught in an awkward place if the request turned out to be something weird. Not that I think Courtney's request would be in anyway sinister, but this is the internet, so you never really know. It's a totally legitimate question. I don't understand why it was wrong for her to ask. 

I don't think it's wrong to ask perse, although slightly pointless, I also don't think it's wrong to have a joke about it or just say "this is a trusted person, there's no reason to be suspicious"

I think it's perfectly reasonable to say "hey i want a favour done, if you don't want to do it there's no reason to know what it is, otherwise ask me!" which is what the first post implies, taking from that the idea that it would be anything dodgy like drug smuggling and that, that wouldn't be picked up via PM was just funny to me.  I mean, seriously, what would it be, other than "can you bring me back some m&m's"? Lolz!

Sure, but there are ways to get those messages across without eye rolling.

Oh dear. 

Mandy~ I'm really sorry that I made you feel suspicious. That was not my intention. I just needed something brought over for me and was too lazy to type out the whole, convoluted request. I figured that since I'm a long time poster on the board, that someone who knows me might be able to help. That's all. Thanks for being willing to consider helping me out.

PlainPearl~ I honestly don't think the eyeroll was meant to be nasty. Princesslemons does not have a nasty bone in her body. However, I think that she knows that I am a middle-aged, somewhat nerdy curtain twitcher who leads a very uneventful life, and the eyeroll expressed her profound understanding that whatever I was asking was by definition, unexciting. 

FWIW, I found CB's comment hilarious. The board has felt very heavy for a few days so the levity was welcomed. Thanks CB! 

I have had several luvley offers of help and hopefully one of them will come through for me. Thanks to everyone who has responded! 

To which I would add - we do have a number of newer/new-ish members, who don't know that Courtney is...

...a middle-aged, somewhat nerdy curtain twitcher who leads a very uneventful life...

(Much like myself!)  Or that princesslemons is as lovely as she can be.  Or even that either of them are longtime posters such as they are.

Reading PL's eye-rolly thing, in my mind I understood her response as where I might put this:    ...but PL instead put this:     ...which is fine in the context those who know her & Courtney understood - but not everybody does.

So I can understand how a newer/new-ish member might read it completely differently.  One of those things where posts on an internet forum can be so easily misconstrued!

So it's good to understand where everyone is coming from on this. 

Man, sorry to cause offense! I'm glad Courtney and Mrs. R understood. It was the equivalent of "don't be silly." But not because you're boring, Courtney!!! But you don't seem the drug smuggling type.

I've volunteered, it's just a bag of flour separated into lots of baggies for convenience, totally legit! 

This had me cracking up on the train! Haha.

Individual baggies of flour...  Sounds dodgy to me! 

Hope it doesn't happen like when I tried to bring back Jello Instant Pudding, and TSA poked a stick into it (to make sure it was pudding?!) & I ended up with pudding powder all over inside my bag.  I hate TSA! 

But not because you're boring, Courtney!!! But you don't seem the drug smuggling type.

It's always the sweet and innocent looking ones you have to watch out for, though. lol