Re: Am I allowed to ask for clarification from bidder?

John Blubaugh wrote
> Sven, would you let Ed play in your club with the novices and Flight C
> players with this attitude? Would you have a talk with him about it? What
> would you do if he kept calling the director for these minute infractions?

  Who cares?  It is not going to happen.

> I repeat, calling the director will run developing players away from the
> game about as fast as anything I can think of. If it is necessary, it must
> be done very gently and friendly.

  Pray tell, who suggested otherwise?  Only you.  Ed, I, and most other 
people here call the TD to sort out situations: you don't: you call him 
"on" a player.  Sure, I expect your TD calls would upset opponents: mine 
never have, and I bet Ed's don't.

> It takes a while to develop a think bridge
> skin and not take director calls personally. I have long thought that bridge
> manners and director calls ought to be including in teaching. It isn't here,
> people are scared to death to turn off these new players. Our record for
> keeping new players is horrible and when there is a follow-up, the
> overwhelming cause stated by the newbie is player rudeness.

  Exactly - you think calling the TD equates to player rudeness: I know 
it does not, and so do my opponents.

> I know this is
> hard for Ed to believe but these folks took up the game to have FUN. Having
> the law called on you is far from fun.

  True, which is why we do not do it.

> Some clubs here (Alan LeBendig's is one) have rules against calling the
> director on novices for some infractions. Hesitations is one of them, nit
> picking minor rules violations would be another. However, I am sure if the
> problem was relayed to the director, he would sit down with these folks in
> private and explain what was expected of them.
>
> Eternal novices help pay for the game for the rest of us. Without them, our
> fees go and more and more clubs die.

  Other players also pay fees.

--
David Stevenson               Bridge   RTFLB   Cats  Railways    /\ /\
Liverpool, England, UK        Fax: +44 870 055 7697               @ @
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         ICQ 20039682     bluejak on OKB   =( + )=
           Bridgepage:        http://blakjak.com/brg_menu.htm      ~