Slide out or no

SoundGuy wrote:

captnjack wrote:
Like many other issues we see mentioned here, for the most part, the people who don't have slides are worried about them and the people who have slides are not worried about them.

SoundGuy wrote:
I'm guessing this slide owner and this slide owner might take a different view. :W

Easy to be an armchair quarterback when you're not the one having slide issues. :R

captnjack wrote:
But the people who seem to fear slide problems the most are the people who chose not to get slides. Which is fine since it's their choice. But if you don't have them you should probably not refer to problems with them.

SoundGuy wrote:
Guess you need to pay more attention :S - I do have a slide. :R

captnjack wrote:
Guess YOU need to pay more attention. The sentence you reacted to was at the end of a paragraph aimed at people who DON'T have slides.

Nice try captn but you're going to have to do better than this. :W As I previously stated all the trailers we've owned previously has been non-slide but our current one does have a slide so we've been on both sides of the fence. Your comment that "the people who seem to fear slide problems the most are the people who chose not to get slides" overgeneralizes - the trailers we owned without a slide were chosen not because we "feared" slide problems but because at the time we were doing a lot of long distance camping and the last thing I wanted to deal with was the always present possibility of slide failure, whether leakage or mechanism issues. It was a rational decision based on common sense, not "fear". We now have a trailer with a slide and certainly one of the mitigating reasons we chose it is because we no longer long distance travel for weeks at a time as we used to - slide issues close to home are a far different matter than 1000 miles from home. Sorry captn, you're demoted to first mate. :W

OK. You did not "fear" slide problems. You only did not want to deal with "the always present possibility of slide failure". Again, not a fear. Should we call it a "worry" or a "concern"? Would that be better?
I already stated that I was just noticing what appeared to be happening in these discussions. I admitted it was not a scientific evaluation. Generalizing, yes. OVER generalizing? Maybe, maybe not. Aren't we splitting hairs at this point? I don't really care whether or not you get slides. Or if anyone else does for that matter.
I think we're done here. Happy camping and stay safe.