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Old 06-30-2016, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by CFrance View Post
I think you can also get ananswer by emailing the headof the Rec Dept. I have, on more than one occasion.

As Gracie and others pointed out, you probably will not be appreciated entering into an established group of players. but it's another case of having rules but not enforcing them. You can probably force the issue if you go to the top, but it won't change that group's mindset, and they will probably make you unhappy.

This isn't America's Friendliest Hometown. That is just marketing. TV is your normal group of 110,000 people, each of whom having unique personality and nature, some good and some not.

I know what I would do... I would go to the top and ask why this is happening, and maybe they will advise the group to follow the rules. But I would find somewhere else to play, because bad feeling between you and the group is already established, and that would be hard to overcome. JMO
BE the friend yourself. I wouldn't want someone who is a vegan joining my group on how to serve hamburger 100 ways. (I am not in that group and I doubt there is one, but you get where I'm going) You have to be the grown up you are to realize that in some things it is an advance to walk away.

As my sweet daughter tells me often. You can't have everything in this world you want.
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