Post #474140 by Psycho Tiki D on Mon, Aug 3, 2009 4:27 PM

palapala,

First and foremost, I am here for my love of tiki. That is "my" love. Everything else is secondary.

The bonus of the "secondary" has been the amazing people I have met along the way. I can't think of one single instance in which I have been a social setting the Ohana has not made me feel welcome. The TC'ers here in my hometown and surrounding areas are the greatest bunch of people I have ever met, all of them.

I have had my share of ribbing and I have given my share back as well. I am sure there are more than a few out there who don't like me or my posts and if so, they can tell me why if and when they meet me.

Obviously there are groups of people that spend more time together that feel more comfortable around their core group than they do with newbies and that is o.k. I myself don't linger for conversations for any length of time, but I digress to my learning disabilities and am not easily entertained. I need visual stimulation and find myself happier listening than talking.

From your posts, I see you are more into crafts, other events and food and drinks. I, on the other-hand, post more on the general, collecting and tiki music threads. In fact, I don't think I have ever read any of your posts because I don't generally go to the threads you are on. You would be the person I would want to speak to about those subjects, since I don't know much about them at all.

I have been on this board just slightly a month longer than you and I would not consider myself "new" nor would I consider myself a veteran. Somewhere in the middle and happy to be there.

Give it a chance. It was brave to bring it up, so now that it is out, you will now for sure when the event happens if you were right or dead wrong. I tend to think you will be surprised in a positive way.

PTD