Quote Originally Posted by sinderella View Post
thank you. i appreciate everyone's opinion very much, sub or Dom.

speaking of which, i looked for and found a place here in Arizona where you can connect with people who share this way of life. oh boy...i got invited to a 'munch' at an IHOP downtown...it's tomorrow from 2:00 to 4:00, and every third Sunday of every month, or something, so i don't know if i will go i mean they are still strangers....have any of you ever gone to one and what did you think? just curious. part of me thinks it would be interesting to meet people in an ordinary setting and see what they are like.
Well, like you I have been really trying to get plugged into a community and not just have coffee with random strangers who post on CL or collarme. So far, I've been on a tour of a local dungeon and to a munch. The dungeon tour was not at the top of my list because I'm not looking to play with strangers, and certainly not in public, but I thought I could network a little - and it was SURPRISINGLY non-threatening. Of course, the club was not in use at the time, but the people were really nice, and interesting, and the place was actually pretty warm and inviting, in a strange way.

Then I went to a munch that I had really been looking forward to, and it was HORRIBLE. I'm a city mouse, not a suburban girl, and it was in this sort of run-down restaurant in a run-down suburb, so that was not inviting for me. And while the people were all very nice, they were old. Old, old, old. Not old like me, old like I brought down the average age in the place by about 10 years. It was like having dinner with your very kinky grandma.

But. That will not stop me going to another munch, just not that one.