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Originally Posted by redrum
i want to clarify on this fact, that i know that the majority of car people are nice. ive been to the 1/4 mile track plenty times and usually always have a good experience with strangers there being nice.
what im REALLY getting to, is more so of the fact that i do not feel welcome there.
when you have an established club where everyone knows everyone (take for example, the san antonio section of this site LSS or TAMSCC) ... people are quick to go to their friends in the club and chat up a storm. in TAMSCC, ive not felt welcome because no one came up to me and talked to me, trying to make me feel welcome. the few people i did go up to and talked to, didnt really talk much to me, moreso talked to the girl who came with me. thats not any way to encourage people to join a club. in LSS in san antonio, if you come out to biffs any given friday night and you dont know anyone, and you park close to us and come ask if we are LSS... you will get an ambush of "hey whats up? whats your name? welcome to biffs! good to see you out here."
it makes you feel welcome and comfortable. makes you part of the group. LSS does this very well. TAMSCC on the other hand seems to be unwelcoming group. maybe not conciously, but definitely subconciously atleast, they are unwelcoming. if yall want to lose your reputation of being a mean club, make new people feel welcome.
just to give you some idea of what im talkin about.... the only people i talked to for more than 2 minutes there, were Wade, Candace and Maria (the girl that came with me)... because i already knew all of them. everyone else talked to me for a minute or less. said hi and bragged about their car, and that was about all.
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While that is unfortunate that we didn't appear as friendly as we could (should?) have been, it seems a bit harsh to judge us by one auto-x (which is a very hetic time). Did you make it out to any socials events? After auto-x dinner? Monday night dinner? After rallye party? Bowling? Movie night? Monthly offical meetings? Officer meetings? After meeting dinners? Open House?
As I said, auto-x is a very busy time, where most of the officers are busy doing other things. Believe it or not, we try to have events where we soicalize with members (noobs included!) I would agree, we aren't very social in the middle of an auto-x, but I believe we more than make up for it at other times.
I was at Sonic last Friday, the 31th, with approx 6 other club members, and not one person I didn't come with made any attempt to come up and talk to me, despite the fact that I am a LSS member, and used to own and auto-x a Fox body. I realize that most people here have never met me, or ever will, possibly because of the fact that they someone told them I post mean things on the internet (or have seen me post on the internet).
Most people said I ruin the club without ever hearing me utter a single word.
While this is certainly your prerogative to dislike me, saying you dislike me and the club because of what you heard (or saw) me post on the internet is just silly. No one from LSS came up and tried to talk to me or make me feel welcome as part of LSS, or tell me how much of an asshole I was (if you actually feel that way).
Seriously, before you say we don't welcome people, actually try and come to an event where we make it a point to welcome people. Don't misunderstand; I'm not saying you have to like me, or the club. It's not for everyone, and I accept that fact. But don't go to only one event, and say we are noob haters. Everyone was a noob once, and all the officers, IMO, recognize that fact.