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Sometimes you can be around Modelers and feel alone. It happens with any group of people doing whatever.Most clubs say hello! Make you welcome and steer you to the trains and show you the good stuff and help introduce you to others. The two in my area that I know of (Arkansas Valley and the Crooked Rails) do this really well.Now if that person has a throttle in thier hand and are "Locked" on to a train getting converstation out of that person will be the same as trying to elict a response from a boulder. Sometimes the quiet ones who dont want too much human contact hide behind the operating area where the public cannot get to them. These Gophers are generally very effective at keeping the railroad functional. They are just too "Busy" being happy doing what they are doing and not have to deal with you and me.If you do happen to find yourself in a club that gives you the cold sholder or otherwise reacts to you as one would react to a spider in the kitchen then maybe you want to find another one that will be better for you socially or more open to communciation.Not everyone will have the ability to walk up to you and say "HELLO!" some folks are shy and others too grumpy and occupied with thier own issues to deal with you.What I think is worse is showing up at a high-brow club full of expensive technology trying to run that new Tyco. You will either be coldly showed the door or be center of attention.One clue to me is the noise level. If everyone is being loud and talking to each other alot and things are going on such as a short somewhere or a train is being made up or perhaps a new member is being shown DCC for the first time... it is a great place to be.Others with silence and bulletproof glass 3 feet from the edge of the railroad are not so good.I deal with many people at work. And my favorites are those who ask a question that is safety related and recieve a negative response and return a few moments later trying the same problem from another angle. Those are the ones I remember. No is no and yes is yes. LOL.
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