vincent p. norris
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-IIRC, Jim, you were pretty unhappy about the parking fee at Manteo.
-Did you decide to land there anyway?

I don't know where Manteo is. My bitch is with Dare County. I thought their
tiedown policies were outrageous.

I went so far as to email my colleagues on the Dare County Board of Supervisors
(Board of Commissioners, Board of whatever your state calls the County Board)
and told them that they were sticking it to their visitors, and that this
visitor wasn't particularly happy about it.

Guess what? For all the foofaw about "southern courtesy", these jerks didn't
even have the common manners to write me back telling me to go to hell or
anything else. I am embarrassed as a former County Supervisor (Commissioner)
that these yo-yos didn't have the cojones to respond to a simple request for
information.

So far as I am concerned, the Dare County Board of Commissioners is a bunch of
arrogant locals who have no concept of trying to build some sort of visitor base
for the future. I see them as a "stick the visitor" because they have no
concept of trying to build up the "we're going to make your visit pleasurable".

All they can see is that this "centennial" isn't going to happen again for a
hundred years. What they FAIL to see is that they could parlay this celebration
into hundreds of us coming once a year or so to honor the event, rather than
thousands coming once every hundred years. What shortsightedness.

Dumb. Terminal dumb. I hope this email works its way into the hands of the
current incumbents' opponents who will use it to unseat these unresponsive
goofballs.


-
-I decided to try another eastern NC field, but by the time I got
-around to checking, rental cars had all been reserved, so I'm flying
-to Norfok and driving from there. It's only 85 miles and I'd need to
-rent a car anyway, regardless of where I landed.

I wouldn't have needed a car had Dare County been reasonable, but I'm also going
to Norfolk and spending my money there.

Jim

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com