Hi guys, I know most of you don’t know me very well, but I feel somewhat compelled to share my feelings and experience on this whole coffee thing. I’m not sure what happened here today, but like Vic I am disappointed that the topic was axed. I thought it was going well.
Let me share a little background about the coffee concept, and then you should decide if you want to try one more time, or simply skip it.
I didn’t invent it, or think of it first. The original idea was brought to the Classic Toy Trains forum by Chief Eagles. He is also a member of a fishing forum, and the members there had a daily “check in” topic where everyone could stop in and say hi, or whatever. He started to do this on the CTT forum, and the guys liked it. After about a week of new topics daily, I suggested that he just create one, and keep it running. Well it was a huge success. I then brought the concept to the MR forum.
The point of the topic is that it has no subject. You can call it a trash can if you want, but it does serve a purpose. It allows the members to be social and get to know one another. Over on the MR version, we have people who, prior to coming to the forum did not know each other, and now they converse by phone. Some have traveled and visited other members. Bottom line, people are making friends. Isn’t that a part of this hobby?
Maybe you garden guys are close knit enough. This group is fairly small, and you know each other well enough. I did not try to bring this concept here, because I felt I was too much of an outsider. This may be why when Nick (Locomotive10, who now goes by the name Bert and Mary Poppins ) tried to start a coffee shop here, it flopped.
I was very impressed with Tim’s attempt, as a relative newcommer. I really thought he had succeded, and I posted a message to that effect. Perhaps I was premature in my congratulations.
I would like to invite everyone to visit either the CTT or MR coffee shops, in the hopes that on