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

[David Brown]

I remember in the old days that if we did not camp at an event we stayed at a local SCA'er home. Seemed the thing to do but of course times do change.

David Brown

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Bree Flowers <evethejust at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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
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