Can’t turn loose (NAGR)

[BigGuy]

I was still in junior high when a friend and I were using an electric drill. We were mounting a seat to an old lawnmower frame. I don’t remember the rest of the plan, but I’m sure it would have been preceded by the phrase, “hold my beer and watch this,” if we’d been a little older. My friend grabbed the drill, then suddenly hollered and dropped it.
“It shocked me!” he said.
I must confess that my next decision was made without the benefit of alcohol, but with plenty of youthful hubris. I grabbed the drill and pressed the trigger. At this point I made 2 interesting discoveries. (1) Even though I had used the drill just a short time earlier, it was now quite defective. (2) With electricity running up my arm and every muscle seized, I could not turn loose of the drill or released the trigger.

That story comes to mind as I delete the umpteenth email from Dudley, or his friends, admonishing me to renew my NAGR membership. I’ve been regaled over the past year by Dudley’s exploits and concerns. I don’t remember actually joining NAGR. You’d think I’d recall paying any fee. I haven’t been deep enough into a bottle of rum to do something like that with out remembering it since my college days. None-the-less, it appears that my name has been written in the book of membership. And I don’t know how to get it out.
I’d hoped that with the passing of the renewal date without action on my part, I’d be cast into the great void of non-membership. That certainly seems to work with utilities. Forget gas, electric, water, or cable, and they will quite happily forget you exist. You can sit quite happily in your cold, dark house, drinking collected rain water while reading a book by candle light, secure in the knowledge that you’ll never again hear from those utilities unless, or until, you send them more money. Not so apparently with NAGR.
I could, of course set my email up to simply delete anything from them without my ever having to bother with it. But it’s like that horrible car wreck you pass on the highway that you don’t want to look at, but are strangely compelled. I find myself wondering just how long they will desperately cling to the fleeting hope that I’ll re-up.
Anybody else have similar experiences?

[RPBrown]

I have to laugh at the first part of your story as it brings back a memory. The first time my son ever went on a service call with me, I was working in a control panel with all ranges of electricity from 24 volts up to and including 480 volts. It was a very tight space for my hands but I had to check the voltages with it live. I handed my son (about 14 at the time) a short 2x4 and told him if the electricity grabbed me to hit me with the 2x4. The only question he asked was "can I take a practice swing?" I then had the look

NAGR among others has been filling up my personal email box that I never use anymore. All wanting money, wanting me to join or renew. Tried to unsubscribe several time but didn't work. Thats one of the reasons I don't use that email anymore.

[C-dub]

I, too, hoped the incessant e-mails would go away after the membership lapsed. I'm about ready to tell them the reason why I did not renew my membership is due to their support for the OCT nut jobs messing with Texas.

[The Annoyed Man]

I never joined, nor have I ever had any contact with NAGR, which leads me to believe that he simply purchased a list from a data vendor. I have repeatedly unsubscribed, but I suspect that Dudley simply views the unsubscribe requests as "yep, he's getting my spam" without a care in the world that he's seriously ticking me off.

I finally set my inbox filter to automatically route all NAGR email to my trash bin, mark it read, and permanently delete it. Peace now reigns in my domain. That guy thinks he's hot stuff. He's just a cold poo warmed over.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Dudley Brown and Rand Paul swapped email lists. One more reason not to like Rand Paul. His willingness to get in bed with Dudley Brown speaks volumes.

Chas.

[puma guy]

I got a rash of emails enticing me to join long ago, which I ignored and deleted. Haven't received any thing in a very long while. Now I'll probably start getting them. Don't any of you guys get funny and forward to me.

[maintenanceguy]

I too was nagged by NAGR by email for a long time. I unsubscribed several times but kept getting the emails. Finally, about 6 months ago they stopped. Maybe they wait until the 6th or 7th unsubscribe request before they figure you really mean it.

[CoffeeNut]

They've been filling up my spam box recently as well. I thought it was something from the NRA at first so I opened one but I won't make that mistake twice.