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I'm sorry I posted this thread. Nothing was accomplished except a bunch of people got mad each other and flamed me.

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You did just fine. I believe you gave us a completely accurate view of what went on from your perspective. The responses you got were unnecessarily rude, but do serve to get the point across that players simply cannot retract into a shell and ignore the world while a hand is in play. However much you may want to avoid speaking, moving, or showing your face, SOME amount of situational cognizance is mandatory. Thank you for taking one for the team.

I'm very happy you posted this tale--it's different than the usual replays of the same basic situations we read here most of the time and we all got to play Aesop and end the tale with "...and the moral of this story is...".