amid chaos
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Some of you may know that a friend sponsored me 2 years ago and I joined the local garden club.
I should have turned around and ran when a woman came up to me at my first meeting and commented it was nice to have a member without gray hair.
I took the prerequisite design classes, got put on the required number of committees, made little tea sandwiches on my hostess days, made flower arrangements for the library and was basically a good little upstanding member.
The daisies hit the fan when they assumed I would want to be a chairman of a committee. Junior gardeners to be exact. The group goes into the schools and does programs with the 4th grade classes. I didn't mind participating, but I certainly didn't want to be chairman.
The old chairman never got the paper work to me (so I could figure out the program), I called and called and finally just held a meeting and asked the longtime members what we do. Nice, huh? Guess who shows up late with SOME of the paperwork to the meeting. I could have decked her with a shovel.
Needless to say, I looked like a real loser.
I have decided I want to play and dig in the dirt instead of stuffing flowers in a vase of some sort for competition, making stupid tea sandwiches and chairing a committee where every member knows about the committee than me.
I think this club is cliquish (sp) and snotty. Even after more than 2 years belonging, I sit by myself at meetings (and watch the clock).
I have decided to see my chairmanship committment thru June and then write a letter resigning not only from the committee, but from the whole club.
I understand the only members that leave do so when they die. Maybe I'll write an obituary as my resignation letter.
So, beware my friends....of local garden clubs looking for fresh meat.
I should have turned around and ran when a woman came up to me at my first meeting and commented it was nice to have a member without gray hair.
I took the prerequisite design classes, got put on the required number of committees, made little tea sandwiches on my hostess days, made flower arrangements for the library and was basically a good little upstanding member.
The daisies hit the fan when they assumed I would want to be a chairman of a committee. Junior gardeners to be exact. The group goes into the schools and does programs with the 4th grade classes. I didn't mind participating, but I certainly didn't want to be chairman.
The old chairman never got the paper work to me (so I could figure out the program), I called and called and finally just held a meeting and asked the longtime members what we do. Nice, huh? Guess who shows up late with SOME of the paperwork to the meeting. I could have decked her with a shovel.
Needless to say, I looked like a real loser.
I have decided I want to play and dig in the dirt instead of stuffing flowers in a vase of some sort for competition, making stupid tea sandwiches and chairing a committee where every member knows about the committee than me.
I think this club is cliquish (sp) and snotty. Even after more than 2 years belonging, I sit by myself at meetings (and watch the clock).
I have decided to see my chairmanship committment thru June and then write a letter resigning not only from the committee, but from the whole club.
I understand the only members that leave do so when they die. Maybe I'll write an obituary as my resignation letter.
So, beware my friends....of local garden clubs looking for fresh meat.
I'm sorry your experience wasn't a happier one. 
