Oh, ha! I almost went to one once, and by almost I mean I got all the way to the venue, which turned out to be a very tiny bar utterly chock full of people and they were all being very loud. I milled around for about ten minutes, twisting and turning through the packed crowd, trying to determine who might be the meetup people, before I just gave up and hopped on the next bus towards home. I mean, I don't drink alcohol and don't even particularly enjoy being around drinking but I know for most people it's a good fixture to socialize around and so I try to be a good sport about it. Then there was the noise, I felt like I wouldn't be able to hear what people were saying, and I didn't know any of them already in person and that felt like a bad way to introduce. I'm quite loud and people can usually hear me, but I can have a hard time hearing other people in rowdy surroundings. The final killer was figuring out the logistics of how to actually find the meetup without being too weird at a bunch of strangers in the process.
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Date: 2019-02-12 08:52 pm (UTC)