Rednecks like Cheesecurds. Or so one man thinks.

So I had a very interesting thing happen to me late last night.

Remember my post about the ground zero museum that Lawyer and I visited in NYC?  Well, the site that I bought my tickets from asked me to RATE my experience.  So, naturally, I did.

I stated that I was very unhappy.  That it was not quite what I had expected and that I was shocked at the rating it received on the 'must sees' of NYC.  I stated that I felt my money would have been better spent elsewhere.  Honestly, I got more out of just walking around the actual site of ground zero than I did watching yet another horrific video about 9/11 with some cheesy background music being played.

So, apparently, due to my dissatisfaction, this website, naturally, sent my review to the museum.  The museum's response was... quite appalling.  Extremely immature and demeaning and that just makes me wonder about the kind of show such people are running.

In this e-mail I was called numerous names.  I was told I am a horrible person, that I have no heart, that I am arrogant and dumb and probably do not read nor do I probably know how to.  I was told that my 'money' was worthless and dirty.  I was called out as being an evil person who has to be extremely unhappy with her life.  I was called greedy and money hungry for stating that I just did not think this 'museum' was worth the $54.00 charge.  I was asked what I thought a 'museum' was.  He also said he was surprised that I could find a man that would bother to be around me and how unfortunate that man was.  I could go on.  You get the point.  I mean, this was quite a long letter that the CHIEF of the Fire Department rudely wrote me.  He said my tainted money was not welcomed so I was to receive a refund, which was processed immediately following the e-mailed response. 

In about three sentences I thanked this horribly immature and disrespectful chief for my refund and told him good luck with his 'museum' and pretty much left it at that.  He then proceeded to immediately e-mail me back to make sure he told me that it was his pleasure because he did not want the money from a redneck in Wisconsin and that I should enjoy my cheesecurds.  What if I had been a black woman?!  Would he have hurled racial slurs at me too?!

Wow.  Really?  A few things to say here.  I thought this whole museum was about respect and respect of those that suffered horribly through 9/11, but here this adult man is calling some woman names because she simply just did not like this 'museum'.  It wasn't about the content or the event in which this was all based, it was simply that money was spent, money I work HARD for, on being buzzed into some warehouse type building covered in graffiti on the outside,  taken up 3 floors where I was greeted in a small hallway and then taken into a room where I was asked not to keep my purse and other belongings on me, but to set them on some random shelf where anyone could have just walked off with them, and then stand, because there were not enough chairs, to watch a video about 9/11.  I did not want to watch a video.  I wanted to look at the things on the wall.  To see the artifacts found at the site, etc.  If I wanted to watch a video, I would buy one on Amazon, to which I did state in my rating review.  His response was this: That places like CNN, etc, rated this as one of the best LITTLE museums out there regarding 9/11 (I am going to guess this is the only one but anyways...) and that they had footage that no one else has.  That's fine.  Good for CNN.  Just because CNN liked it doesn't mean I have to.  I am an AMERICAN, ever hear of FREEDOM OF SPEECH?  If you don't want a true review, then don't ask for one!  Not everyone will be a fan.  I am sure I am not the first, but was the only one willing to admit she did not care for it.  And as for the unpublished footage, that is fine and dandy too, but you see... I do not need to see this tragic day in history from 20 different camera angles.  The facts and the horror remain the same.  Perhaps make the video the last part of the museum so that those who do not wish to watch it don't have to, but can view the unique artifacts first.

Well I simply stated professionally that I am allowed to my opinion and that if he did not want reviews/ratings on his museum then they should not be requested.  I told him not to contact me any longer or use my personal e-mail address and that I had him blocked.  So what does he do?  Proceeds to harass me by using another e-mail address!!

I promptly blocked it, deleted it, and left it be as that.

Wow.  I may not be the best with criticism, but this guy really went balls to the walls.  All he had to say was he was sorry I did not enjoy it and in his eyes it was not very patriotic of me.  Did he really need to call me a redneck?  I think not.  I bet he hates George Bush too and calls him a redneck on a regular basis.  What happened to standing by your countrymen?

What a shame.  Glad to have my money back.  I care not to support assholes like that.

As for the website that all this took place through... they will be hearing from me as well and the need to ask if the person rating the activity would like to remain anonymous or not.  I did not ask for a refund, I simply stated my disappointment.  This crazy man now knows my first and last name (in which he felt the need to use an extensive amount of times in his threatening e-mails stating that he would come to WI to see how well MY make-shift museum was going to be), my address, my credit card number and my e-mail address.  Great.