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Madame4a -> RE: The Scene? My first community experience (2/15/2010 11:30:40 AM)
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I have very different experiences but I have been going to stuff for a really long time, and I'd say there's rarely something I'd show up to in town where I wouldn't know someone... and even strangers seem to be nice to me. Also even out of town I know someone.. ugh.. been around too long I think.
That said, I'd suggest a few things -- I don't know that everyone is friendly, but some are -- but some, including me, are standoffish when first seeing/meeting people. I'm polite, but not effussive. Generally, I'm waiting to see if you stick around. Hate to say it, but there are so many one timers and tourists (as such) that I'm not going to invest to heavily in people who show up once and never again. YMMV -- and I won't for one minute suggest its the right attitude, but it is an attitude.
The other thing is -- people do not always know how to approach others - they don't know what kind of protocol you observe. (I have to admit here, few people are actually being that polite. I've found at larger events the idea that you should wait a bit and be polite seems lost on many.) I tend to observe a great deal of protocol in my relationship and at certain events. That means that I don't stick my hand out to shake someone else's hand... particularly a slave. I don't want my boy doing it. I don't want people approaching my boy -- they come through me. Again, that said, its her job to make sure others observe our protocol -- if I'm not around. I can't expoect others to know what I want.
I'm rambling.. sorry.. just some thoughts on events/people etc.
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