Miata Mailing List: March 1998, Message #222

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Sonja62786 wrote:

> << How many miata owners out there just
>  don't belong to a local chapter because they want a "car club" and not
>  a "social club" as a lot of chapters seem to be?
>   >>
> 
> Question 1: Definition of "Car Club" vs "Social Club".


I guess that MY definition  of a car club would be a club that
focus on activities related to the car and a social club would focus
on activities that relate more to "just meeting".

 
> 
> Question 2: Are those mutually exclusive concepts?


Nope.  In fact, a car club would not be any fun if it doesn't have
a good social aspect to it.


> 
> Question 3: Is not a "Miata Club" a Car Club by definition and one that
> usually would have social as well as tech oriented aspects?


Exactly my point.


> 
> My comment: Beware of false dichotomies!!! Enjoy the aspects of a club that
> appeal to you. Try as many activitities as possible. Get off your duff and
> extend the scope of interest and activities by your contributionl. Those who
> "do not belong to a local chapter" because it does not offer what they desire
> are the kind of people who are willing to sit at the table and eat, only if
> others have done all the cooking and probably will also do the dishes. I
> suggest that if they do not find their favorite dish on the menu, then,
> instead of bemoaning its absence, they should get in the kitchen and start
> heating the pots and pans and peeling the taters.


I agree with the part about extending the scope of interest and activities
by my own contributions, but not with the rest. I don't think that there
is a lot of people that will join a club knowing it will not offer what
they are looking for, expecting to get in and change things to what they
want.  Following your kitchen analogy, why go to a chinese restaurant
if you really want italian food?

Actually, I do agree that "if you don't like the way things are, work to 
change it", but you would only do that after you are "in" and you would
only get "in" if there was something in common in the first place.
That is where my comment about some people not joining a local chapter
at all comes from.


Anyway, my main interest is in knowing how many chapters have a
good balance between both "car" and "social" activities and what
would those "car" activities be?


-- 

Ony Anglade
QOA000@ftw.mot.com