Missing DIS'ers AND 'previously' or 'periodically' missing DIS'ers...

[wvrevy]

...Not sure if you'd consider me as "missing" from THIS board, since I never did really post all that much here. Used to post on the collectors board pretty constantly....

Why leave ? Welllll....you might not like my answer. I've found this place to be fairly "clique-ish" at times, and I can only handle so much "being ignored" before it gets a little old

Why come back....'Cause I'm a disney person, just like all of you, and people that haven't "drank the kool aid" just don't get it, so I gotta come back here on occassion to get my fix

That said...I tend to lurk unless I think I have something to actually add to the conversation, so I'm actually here more than anyone would think...

 

[Dan Murphy]

Some interesting replies. I was simply hoping, I guess, that maybe some lurking 'MISSERS' might see this and see a reason to drop back and say hello. Thanks guys.

And as I said in the OP, I too, have taken breaks in the past, usually from a sense of aggravation at something, and feeling it best to just layoff for a bit, but, then realizing what a nice place the DIS is in general, generally great people (a few jerks here and there, but that's like RL too), coming back to 'the family'.

 

[Teejay32]

Hey, Dan...

::: pulls Dan's hat over his face :::

::runs::

 

[Dan Murphy]

See, like hat-puller Tee there. I know she hangs out on the DB (how do you do that, Tee? ) and I recall being with her, and a pretty big group of DIS'ers a few years ago at WDW, and she would just wander off, be gone for a time, and then reappear, just like this, and then, be gone again. Always does seem though, like Tee is there when 'needed'.

Psssssssstttttttttttt, hi Tee!!!!!!

 

[*Fantasia*]

Hi Dan!! Hi everyone!!

I registered in 2000 and got hooked on DIS. But when my husband died in Dec 2001, I stopped coming here. I didn't want to think about Disney or anything to do with Disney (He died at WDW). We didn't go to WDW in 2002.

But...Life must go on. I love Disney and I can't just not go to Disney (but though...the sad memory will always be there, but I have to also think about the good times we had when we were there when he was alive).

I took the courage to go back to Disney in April of 2003 and I said I will only do Universal, but I ended up in Disney as well. Well...of course taking a trip to Disney needs a lot of planning so where did I do that..I went to the DIS Board and got back to the Resort Board. And now, I re-discovered this CB and I like it!

 

[Brer_Papa]

I never feel like i fit in...so....i just stop stopping by....the longest time away lasted over a year....

I did come back...but left again....then last year...after we helped move our youngest DS to Florida in April....

Now i hang around more often because it seems like some sort of a connection to my son ...

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

I was gone for a big chunk last year because my computer totally died and we had to buy a new one. But since then I've been here probably everyday, not always posting, but here. I'm just one of those people who's super sensitive and emotional, so sometimes I just have to be quiet for awhile. But I always get over it.

CBRorbust - I must have missed what happened with EROS because when I got back here he was gone. Also JTB and Ricola were gone. I have no idea what happened, but it must have been bad. I miss talking about The Wiggles with them.

 

[Teejay32]

Originally posted by Dan Murphy
See, like hat-puller Tee there. I know she hangs out on the DB (how do you do that, Tee? )

I've always hung out on the DB, because half of the CB threads I was posting on were eventually kicked off and ended up there. (lol) So it feels like home.

I avoid the CB nowadays because most of my old buddies just aren't here anymore, for lots of reasons. "Avoiding" usually means not reading, either...it's kind of sad for me. So when I'm here it's a brief visit, mostly just to see how people are doing.

 

[CBRorBust]

CBRorbust - I must have missed what happened with EROS because when I got back here he was gone. Also JTB and Ricola were gone. I have no idea what happened, but it must have been bad.

I have no idea what happened to any of them! I used to crack up at JTB and her obsession with Spago and his little fluff guy!

 

[pajamommy]

I've gone missing from time to time, most recently it was because I had started a new full-time job, and was in the middle of my divorce. But, I never really leave, I'm always lurking about!

 

[nativetxn]

When my mother was very ill I wasn't able to visit the DIS as often as I would like.

I've never "left" the DIS. I use my "back button" a lot some days, but I won't leave

 

[cassie]

I was an everyday, gotta check the Dis person. Then last summer I got a baby parrot, and I was finding message boards on parrots. So there, that's where I've been. But I do lurk here when I can.

 

[pw2pp]

I kind of drop in and out. I didn't visit or post for a long time, but now occasionally have posted for the past 3 weeks or so.
Don't really have a reason, just get busy with life and work.

 

[iluvtink]

Hi Dan,

I joined the Boards in 2000 as an Official Tongue-Tied Lurker because we were planning our first land/sea and I was trying to soak up all the info I could. I mainly stayed on the Cruise boards because I already felt very familiar with WDW. After the trip, I lurked less, but still checked in, just for a rationing of Pixie Dust every once in a while. I became active again because we have another land/sea coming up and I actually started posting my opinions, as well.

I won't leave again, and the Boards are stuck with me for two reasons: 1) I thrive on helping fellow DIS'ers make trip decisions, and providing any information I can about resorts, transportation, or whatever. Sharing Disney is such a fun and heartwarming gift! 2) I got very brave and PM'd a very nice person named Lewski709 about the TAGLIARCHY Board. She warmly invited me to visit, and although I was feeling pretty shy and I thought I'd never figure out all the "inside jokes" when I got there, I've become very fond of this caring, supportive, very insane group of Disney lovers in a very short period of time! Getting up the nerve to ask for an invite was tough, but I'm glad I did!

I've learned that the Boards not only provide good, thorough information, but also a sense of friendship and belonging.

Need to borrow my hankie, sniff sniff? I'm choking up here...

thanks!!! [color=66FF00]iluvtink[/color]

 

[ByTheSea]

I've been on and off the DIS, not a prolific poster, for many years (I don't recall when I started but it was well before the Spoodles meet many years ago)

I confess when it was still fairly new to me, I got sucked into what I would call the "ugly" side of things, the nastier posters who like to pick fights, pick on people, hurt people. I thought that was "funny" - until (long story I'll skip) it hit me that these are real people getting hurt and upset, and frankly, in real life I'm a nice person who wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings if I could help it. But I somehow let myself get sucked into it, it was like a game to play a not so nice person but it wasn't fun anymore and I felt ashamed of my past behaviors. So I disappeared from public posting.. for awhile.....

Then I came back with a couple of new user names trying to avoid certain topics, certain posters and the nastiness... (a minority of posters here) because, well, if you were once not so nice and realize that and try to walk away from that, you become a target for those who are still not so nice and somehow find it insulting that you don't want to be associated with them in any way shape or form.

But recently I've gotten sick and tired of being afraid to post on the DIS. Sick of having to second guess every word I write to avoid having the posse read some sort of "bait" between the lines, usually responding by trying to bring up things I may have shared with them 2 or 3 years ago, in confidence.

So I turned on my ignore functions and try hard to ignore whatever bait they want to toss my way... if I see a DIS thread I have an urge to respond too, I will.