Thanks SO MUCH to the few of you who were nice enough to leave comments here in response to my post today.
Tonij2000, that's a good idea about the church helping to replace it, but it happened in the parking lot so nobody thinks that anyone "church-related" was involved, and besides (a) my friend would never ask them to do that and (b) their church is busy raising thousands of dollars to help aid international efforts (this same friend just got back from a mission in Africa with the church, where they are helping a poor community to build a dam...I mean, this woman is the closest person to Mother Teresa that I know!!) The best thing about this situation is that my friend wasn't hurt, her girls weren't hurt...and if anything, the congregation has been knocked out of their false sense of security...which is a good thing...I'm glad they're learning this lesson from a silly handbag being stolen, rather than one of their little kids!!! (And yes,
CherryFarmGirl, they definitely let the congregation know about this...and she is trying to see if her insurance will help to cover the loss, but we're waiting to see...I would love to try to replace it for her somehow if that doesn't come through!)
And I'm sorry if
SolidGold didn't appreciate my sarcasm in the context of expressing my disappointment about not getting much of a response from tpf-ers (especially seeing everything they were responding to INSTEAD):
Originally posted by SOLIDGOLD2...being sarcastic like that isn't going to help. This isn't a place where were like that towards each other...
I've left plenty of nice comments for other tpfers, and I think I'm entitled to make an observation if I notice that after several hours and over 75 views, only one person had bothered to respond to MY post, and that I found that somewhat disappointing. I guess I just got a vibe that this was the type of community that cared more about each other and would be more responsive to something like this, that's all. Even with a simple "I'm sorry," or whatever. I never said anyone was "obligated" to respond. I just expected more. I'm not going to apologize for saying so.
Although I must beg to differ with you
SolidGold, on your characterization of TPF...apparently not everyone here falls under your description, I'm sorry to say, as you'll see from
Rooby's blatantly snotty post:
Originally posted by Rooby:
to me it sounds like the perfect oportunity to lie about what happened to the bag if she didn't like it and decided to sell it instead, hence the won't "let" you get her another blah blah blah. i've seen those IF bags in person and honestly wouldn't pay $10 for one.
So, Rooby not only tries to insinuate that my friend is LYING (I don't have the kind of friends that Rooby has...my friend is completely distraught about this entire situation...not that Rooby knows ANYTHING about it, but I don't think my friend, who is hoping to become a Lutheran PASTOR, btw, is in the habit of lying about ANYTHING, let alone to her best friend, and about a stupid bag of all things...in fact, she's scrambling to try to figure out how SHE can re-purchase it, with money she doesn't have, since she would feel too bad to have ME buy it for her again...she's an honest, good, beautiful, classy person, which is something Rooby clearly doesn't understand), but then she tries to slam Isabella Fiore?!? Well, thanks for THAT. Insults on TOP of injury. Nice. I must say, Rooby's comment was not only rude and uncalled for, but oddly snobbish coming from someone who claims to collect Rocawear, BabyPhat and
Coach.
I'm not sure if Rooby, of all people, should be attempting to call other TPFers on taste. And as SolidGold pointed out, I didn't think that was the sort of attitude of people here at TPF. Listen, ladies, I have always enjoyed TPF, and again, I am touched by the few people who were kind enough to eventually respond after my second comment. But earlier today, I just had to admit that I was sadly disappointed when I discovered that very few people were bothering to take the time to respond to something that was important to me on a personal level, not just a "help-me-choose-a-bag" level. I'm sorry if pointing that out irritated some people, but it's the truth. And seeing certain people's snottiness revealed here as a result only makes it all the more disappointing.
I certainly wouldn't say that
Rooby represents ALL tpf-ers -- if she did, I wouldn't be coming here anymore, that's for sure. The whole thing is just a big bummer, that's all. I'm just being honest. And I never said anything that wasn't true...unlike Rooby, who not only doesn't know what she's talking about, but somehow feels free to hurl insults at not only my taste, but my friend. Oh, well. I'm just a girl with a special friend and I'm trying to help her...and I looked to TPF for some ideas/support, and was disappointed when I wasn't getting it. As for Rooby, well...what can I say, except
what goes around, comes around.
So she was able to show it off to someone at least that really liked it. Did she report it to the church members? They should be able to do something since it was perhaps a member of their church that stole the purse. 
No one is obligated to respond to any thread...maybe some didn't find it interesting, some don't have a guess as what to do who knows
