[Ansteorra] Why I Joined was ideas was Presentation at Round Table

[Bree Flowers]

> Something I don't see as much now, (Perhaps because I run in the wrong circles,
> more likely because we are a much more family oriented game than we once were
> with less extra room in the cars.)  are the carpools and caravans to events we
> once did.  Nor the offers and expectation of crash space.  Instead we arrange
> group rates at motels which fits the demographic shift from young singles to
> more prosperous and established population but makes it harder if we want to
> catch and keep said young singles.

>From the perspective of someone a generation younger (you joined in
1977, I was born in 1978)... I joined as a teenager, but I still
didn't use a lot of car pools or crash space. Our generation was
raised on "stranger danger". I car pooled with people I knew (by which
I mean knew from outside of the SCA, people I'd been in school with,
been friends with on the playground and had joined the SCA with) and I
never crashed at a stranger's house. I might offer a ride to someone I
don't know very well, and I have offered crash space, but I still
won't accept either from anyone I've known less than a year, or crash
at a home I haven't previously visited. Maybe I'm just a control-freak
though.

~Astridr