I R Raider!
You know one surefire way to make me start to tremble and feel icy clammy slithers of dread down my spine?
It is when someone I know comes up to me and says “we need to talk”. Guess I am one of those that see the glass as half empty because that “we need to talk” opener, however worded, always fills me with apprehension of the bad kind.
So when one of the officers in my new guild whispers me just before raid start and ask if I have a minute to spare because she wants to talk to me you can imagine what happened. Did someone suddenly turn down the temperature in the room?
I know I haven’t been slacking too much in this last month I have raided with my shammy. I have made some a few a lot of mistakes, but I like to think I have learned from them and did not do them twice, and also think that I managed to do a few many some things right from the start.
So this talk a month after I got invited to the guild when I happen to know after having read somewhere that a new members’ trial period is a month should not be something to be afraid of, right? If I sucked badly they would have told me something before, right? Right? Right?
Still, I shiver a little as she asks me how I like it in the guild.
I reply truthfully – I like it a lot! The people are fun and friendly and nice and helpful, the raid leaders are calm and cool and I have a lot of fun raiding there.
And then she replies to me, saying not the words I dreaded but those I hoped to hear – they are happy with me and would like to offer me a full membership!
Yes! Yes, please! Thank you!
I still tremble but as I get promoted from Trialist to Raider in Adrenaline those clammy shivers are now replaced by a broad smile and tears welling up in my eyes and I jump up and down in excitement.
I R Raider!
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Wah! ‘We need to talk’ are the most terrifying words. I don’t think I’m all that much of a glass-half-empty-guy but they tend to precede things like “I think we should break up” and “I just ran over your cat.”
But congratulations! It goes without saying that you’d be an asset to any guild and they’re lucky to have you.
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Yes, I guess good news more often is preceded by some omg-screams-of joy and happiness, not the ominous “we need to talk”.
In this case is was followed by omg’s and tears of happiness instead.
And thanks! :-D
Congratulations! I noticed you’d appeared on Larisa’s list of Adrenaline bloggers. :)
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Thanks!
No sneaking in hoping nobody would notice when Larísa singled out Adrenaline bloggers like that XD.
I’m very proud to have you as a fellow raider as well as on my blog roll. So proud that I needed to single you out Tessy… Cheers and hip hip horray for a very well deserved promotion.
<3
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Thanks! :-)
Gz Tessy :)
Thanks Jauff! :-)
/rofl
You even got a tissue for the tears! Glad to see you are happy and smiling and you should only imagine how the “We need to talk cause you suck” talks go (not my favorite ones :P)
/cheer
Yeah, thanks for that tissue, it was needed :-)
And I don’t want to be in your shoes when you do “we need to talk because you suck”-talks, must be as hard saying that as hearing it :-(