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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2652058" data-attributes="member: 8447">I am freezing out a player this week.  This is the second time I've done this in 30 years.  The first guy was a problem in that my father put pressure on my to allow him in the game.  We were both in the same Boy Scout troop and my dad was determined that I should allow anyone into the game who wanted to join.  So I got The Dork Fish.  I was stuck with him for a year.  Finally all of us got together, told him to get lost, and then, as a group, went to my dad and said, "Dork Fish is gone.  Don't even think about forcing us to take him back."This time it's a little different.On the surface the guy is okay, if a little flakey.  He has some odd opinions, but who amongst us doesn't?  But he is Mister Passive-Aggressive.  "Well, if you guys don't want to play (fill in the blank style) of game, that's fine, but that's going to force me to reschedule my entire world to fit in with it, both in terms of lifestyle and work schedule, but if it's what you want..." (many pouty noises).  He also critiques everyone else's characters, showing how they are not "in the spirit of the game", which is quite amazing since his characters always feel the most out of step.  He also is involved in an on-line cooperative story writing group with the wife of one of our players and caused a huge ruckus there because everyone was "changing the setting we agreed on" (read: he entered a cooperative group, and then determined that "cooperative" meant "everyone plays in my world by my rules").  The breaking point has come, oddly enough, over how he is raising his child.  The kid is a bit over a year old.  He refuses to have her vaccinated against anything (apparently this has something to do with his very much mix-and-match religion) and has had to change doctors three times because the doctors have gotten angry with him.  At a year the child has not even attempted to walk and doesn't even engage in basic verbalizations.  He draws all the blinds at the house, never takes the child outside unless the poor kid is covered head to toe and then placed inside a totally screened-in buggy.  He was amazed one time when I went over to his house and the kid actually giggled when I gave her tummy blurps -- apparently he never really interacts with her and was amazed at her reactions...So we are not only freezing him out of the game but actually calling Child Protective Services on him.This is scary...</blockquote>

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