B was a friend of mine in real life. We had a falling out and didn't talk for quite a few years. We reconnected here in 2024.
She hasn't been here since February. She passed away in March. She had not been healthy for a very long time, but everything seemed to be getting worse in the last decade. RIP.
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She would not want me to reveal her real name on a forum.
Anyway, just wanted to share a few memories of B.
We met online in the early 2000's on Volition forum, where she became a moderator not long before it closed down. We finally met in-person in Anaheim at an MSPA Convention. She was as blind as a bat. She walked into the glass wall of the ballroom at least once. She was very smart, had an advanced degree, but did not use it after a few years. She moved to shopping, which was a huge income cut, but it was what she wanted to do. She always did things her way. She was stubborn. She was fiercely loyal and generous. She loved to talk smack about our nemesis. We are both on the West Coast, so we saw some crazy stuff late night on Volition.
B loved Chinese food and in her not so humble opinion, Oakland Chinatown was better than San Francisco's Chinatown. She warned me about moon pies. She said that they serve last year's pies. She did not trust easily.
B had no sense of direction. She left my house in So Cal and was driving back to her house in Nor Cal. She called me an hour later to tell me that she was at the Mexican Border. She had gone south on I-5 instead of north. She used Streets and Trips for everything back then, except for getting home I guess? I told her to come back and stay another night. Such a goof. This was back before I had wifi in the house. I think that I had just moved in? I remember her driving around my neighborhood with some sort of device to tap into people's home wifi if they had no password. LOL
She loved animals - chickens and cats mostly. When my cat died, she was so compassionate and helpful.
B was smarter than 99.99% of us here. She spent far too long on her reports and failed as an editor, since she expected others to care as much as she did. If she was assigned a shop, it was going to get done. She was trusted with big projects and off-the-board work. She also did random stuff that I never understood - multiple Quick Quacks in a day? Odd.
Anyway, B, gone but not forgotten. Your suffering is over. RIP with the Lord.
She hasn't been here since February. She passed away in March. She had not been healthy for a very long time, but everything seemed to be getting worse in the last decade. RIP.
[www.mysteryshopforum.com]
She would not want me to reveal her real name on a forum.
Anyway, just wanted to share a few memories of B.
We met online in the early 2000's on Volition forum, where she became a moderator not long before it closed down. We finally met in-person in Anaheim at an MSPA Convention. She was as blind as a bat. She walked into the glass wall of the ballroom at least once. She was very smart, had an advanced degree, but did not use it after a few years. She moved to shopping, which was a huge income cut, but it was what she wanted to do. She always did things her way. She was stubborn. She was fiercely loyal and generous. She loved to talk smack about our nemesis. We are both on the West Coast, so we saw some crazy stuff late night on Volition.
B loved Chinese food and in her not so humble opinion, Oakland Chinatown was better than San Francisco's Chinatown. She warned me about moon pies. She said that they serve last year's pies. She did not trust easily.
B had no sense of direction. She left my house in So Cal and was driving back to her house in Nor Cal. She called me an hour later to tell me that she was at the Mexican Border. She had gone south on I-5 instead of north. She used Streets and Trips for everything back then, except for getting home I guess? I told her to come back and stay another night. Such a goof. This was back before I had wifi in the house. I think that I had just moved in? I remember her driving around my neighborhood with some sort of device to tap into people's home wifi if they had no password. LOL
She loved animals - chickens and cats mostly. When my cat died, she was so compassionate and helpful.
B was smarter than 99.99% of us here. She spent far too long on her reports and failed as an editor, since she expected others to care as much as she did. If she was assigned a shop, it was going to get done. She was trusted with big projects and off-the-board work. She also did random stuff that I never understood - multiple Quick Quacks in a day? Odd.
Anyway, B, gone but not forgotten. Your suffering is over. RIP with the Lord.