I know I’ve talked about this before but really, what is wrong with people?   Group owners, store owners, designers, and land owners are under NO obligation to give anything away, EVER!   Seriously people, get a grip.  If you join a group and the owner sends out a gift, THANK them.   Don’t start bitching about the color.  I mean really, WTF???  It was a GIFT!! 

When someone gives you a gift in RL do you immediately tell them it’s the wrong color or that it should be this or that?   I certainly hope not.  You don’t have to like everything your given but have a little bit of tact and common sense and thank the person who gave it to you and then go throw up in the restroom or bushes or wherever if you feel the need to. 

If I go into a store in SL and they have a freebie I may or may not pick it up.   Usually I don’t feel right taking the freebie if I’ve never bought from the store.   That’s just how I am.  I usually walk by the freebies.   Lots of people search out freebies though.  For whatever reason they have a mission to search out quality free items.   Good for them.  If they are pleasant and gracious and friendly I applaud them for the hunt.   It’s the ones that think that they are entitled to the freebie that I have an issue with. 

Why are you entitled to get free stuff?   I’d love to know.  What makes you *entitled* to it?   Did you do something special?  Cure Cancer?  End poverty?  Solve the world’s food problems?  Bring about world peace?  Make the grid more stable?  Lower tier rates?  Make a better viewer?

Nope didn’t think so.  So get in line with the rest of us and stop moaning about what you’re entitled to or that the group gift you got was the wrong color.   Some day when you’ve got your own store or your own group is giving out freebies let me know how much you like getting the hate mail/notecards or IMs from people telling you to F*** Off because the beautiful gift you gave out was the wrong bloody color!

*Evangeline Miles of Evie’s closet posted recently about comments she’s received about her group and the *group gift*.   Reading her post and the comments she’s gotten prompted me to write this.

Tags: evie's closet, freebie, gift second life, sl