Just Another Writer

It’s official: The majority of the people participated in my highly scientific poll share my viewpoint on the plug-in, which is that it is completely annoying, yes, like the guy who hangs out at the 7-11.

Yes, I do have a beef with that dude outside of the 7-11. Here is what happened. I had an almost flat tire, and I stopped to air it up. I stuck the air-thingy on the tire and proceeded to let all of the remaining air out of the tire. About that time, I was hoping for one of our nice chivalrous Texas men to come along and help me out, as they tend to do when they notice that I am spilling oil on the engine, for example.

The air machine quit running and I began to rummage in my purse for some more quarters. A man approached. I was so relieved. Finally someone who knew what they were doing!

“Ma’am, do you have a dollar?” he asked, holding a crumpled paper sack with a presumably empty bottle in it. Whoa, I absolutely lost it.

“What kind of man are you standing out here asking women for money?! Why aren’t you at home taking care of your woman and being a good husband? Blah blah blah.”

In retrospect, that poor guy. He had no idea I had been waiting for the flat-tire version of Prince Charming to show up.

Anyway, a full 41.2% of you are willing to do what most of the rest of you (47.1%) think is as annoying as the 7-11 dude. So, okay, here you go. Here’s the official site for the Buy Me a Beer Plug-in by Ankesh Kothari, who, by the way, is hot. Thanks Ankesh, for unleashing this blatant panhandling upon the Internet. Like the ubiquitous PayPal donation button wasn’t enough! Did I mention that he is hot?

11.8% of you have never heard of this beast, and fortunately do not care. I don’t suppose you’ll be reading this then.

Believe me, if I thought for one second that I could write well enough to inspire you guys to bust out the PayPal account for me, I would have that button on this site. Maybe. But the thing is, we are surrounded by letters and words and junk like that all day long, and if we paid someone every time we read something remotely interesting or useful, we’d all be broke. I’m being generous here. I’m assuming that what most people have to say is remotely interesting or useful. Actually, most of it isn’t. And the beer plug-in is up on the site in spite of this fact, which is like screaming, “I am completely out of touch with my own abilities and the outside world in general”.

So, my personal rule is no beer plug-in. Or coffee plug-in. Or whatever you fantasize you could be drinking plug-in. (If I did have one of these plug-ins, it would be the “Giant Realistic Plug-in”. Why not go for the gold?)

Of course, rules are made to be broken. Here is a list of people who can break the rule:

–People who offer a free service, such as code editing, graphics, templates or plug-ins.

Thank you everyone who participated in the survey! And to the 0% of you who said you’d never return if I put one up, well, fine then. I didn’t want you here anyway.

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