Seems sorta rude to walk into someone's house and >> call them nasty names. And no one has. We have been invited into their store, seen how the store reflects their souls, and called them names. Big difference. This isn't anybody's home. And as you yourself said a few posts later, it isn't a community, in spite of R'osity's smarmy pretense that it is. In a community, one is not a guest but a member, treated with respect and courtesy. We are not neighbors visiting someone's house or the community center, we are customer sheep lined up to be fleeced, and the shearers are, simply enough, not our friends. So lay off the complaints about politeness, Ok? And let's have a rousing chorus of "For we like sheep!" M