Originally Posted by noglider

Thanks to you. He complained, and you return his complaint with a bigger complaint.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. What do you hope to accomplish by telling him he's being rude?

I don't see it as rude, just, uh, grumpy. Don't you ever want to blow off steam? Let him.



How nice for you. Please slap me around if I ever address anyone that way.



As Miss Manners said, rudeness is not a justified response to rudeness. And as one of the experts here, you should know better. His thread doesn't warrant rudeness. There are firm, gentle ways to tell him his response doesn't fit into local protocol. No need to cut anyone down.



So it's OK to make a mistake in fixing up your bike, but it's not OK to make an etiquette mistake? I don't understand why. We all need instruction with everything, at some point.

And you're the first one to use the word "old."

I think your transgressions are larger than YokeyDokey's.

I see him saying he's glad he didn't take advice he didn't like. He didn't say that no one should have said it, which seems to be the premise of your tirade. He says he made a mistake to ask the advice, which I don't agree with, but that's not blaming the people who offered the advice.