Good afternoon, everyone. Guess who this is?
This is David Lumpkins (no joke whatsoever), and I changed my username to qweiop13.
I have two words for Mark Thompson (username: Mizzark) ..... game over! After returning home from Raleigh on Monday, August 14th, 2006, I had a suspicious feeling that all of this crap was a stupid prank that you were playing. That's why this whole post started on Monday, August 14th!
Think about it folks: It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for one person to say to the other person over the telephone, "I'll pick you up at the hotel after I get out of work at 3 p.m.," and purposely never make any effort to drive to the hotel to give me what I deserve. This is far beyond inconsiderate .... it's straight-up rude. And to make matters even worse, Mark and I have been at this for two years. From the first time he e-mailed me back on Friday, May 28th, 2004 all the way to the moment that I arrived at my hotel on Saturday, August 12th, 2006, I thought he was extremely serious about this whole thing. I really thought that he recorded all 13 episodes of "SK8" on NBC from 2001 and that this was not a joke at all.
Since 2004, Mark changed his e-mail address from
[email protected] to
[email protected], which explains why I lost contact with him for 2 years. Then on Saturday, August 5th, 2006, I e-mailed Mark to remind him that I was flying down to Raleigh, North Carolina the following weekend. This is exactly how he replied back to me:
"Hey, I have work that day from 10am until 3pm. If you could get a cab to your hotel I could meet you there, or somewhere nearby, whichever works for you."
I still thought that this guy was dead-serious, because I have had to work on Saturdays myself in the Boston area. I arrived at my hotel on Saturday, August 12th at 1:22 p.m. After 3 p.m., I had my cell phone on waiting for him to call me back. 4 p.m. goes by, no call. 5 p.m. goes by, no call. 6, 7, 8, 9 p.m., still no call. At that point, I was starting to have a feeling that this North Carolina invitation was a complete joke. I was in Raleigh for one more day after that, on August 13th. I text-messaged Mark and I called him ten different times during the afternoon. Yes, he was a complete no-show as far as coming to my hotel to pick me up and driving me to his house to give me the "SK8" episodes.
For some silly reason, I still believe him when he told me that he had to help his sister with apartment-related business. On the same token, though, Mark totally knew that I invested my time (16 hours of PTO time from my job) and money (total cost of the trip was somewhere between $600 to $700) to make a special trip from Boston to Raleigh. For him not to squeeze 3 hours into his schedule during that weekend, knowing that I put over 100 percent of effort and dedication into getting the videotapes of this television show (as demonstrated by all of the postings when you Google search "Did anyone record 'SK8' on NBC"), is completely unacceptable. No exceptions!
Now last night and obviously today, I've realized that all this idiot wants is money. First off, he told me to take a taxicab from Raleigh/Durham International Airport to the hotel that I reserved to stay at for the two nights. All he wanted to do was make me spend a ton of money (for anyone who cares, the one-way cab fare was $38, so that's $76 for a roundtrip). Then last night he e-mailed me asking me to send him $40 in order to receive the tapes. So therefore I'm reading all of this nonsense from him, yet this clown never bothered to help me out during my two-night stay in Raleigh. Furthermore (if everyone else re-reads this posting), all Mark was going to do was send me tapes of Todd Falcon, whoever the hell he is.
This statement is squarely directed 100% to Mark Thompson: You can stop playing your deceitful games because now I've read this entire posting. You're no longer fooling me, so stop e-mailing me and just go out and skate ..... or go to the holy grave.
- David L. Lumpkins