Tonight I shall be heading off shortly to chair my dive club's meeting.
The subject being "look, the membership is dwindling, no-one's diving anymore, the pool fees cost more per month than we make in membership, let's just wrap the whole thing up, sell the assets, split the profit and have a big fucking party, eh?"

Afterwards I shall drink beer and get drunk.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 18 Nov 2010, 18:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Is one of the reasons membership is down
because no one talk about dive-club?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 18:31, Reply)

Pretty much.
Nah, when I joined 15 years ago we had 65 members, mostly active divers, a big fucking boat, and free rental of a boathouse nearby. Then we started to get charge rent (fair enough) people's jobs changed, they started to have babies, club politics started getting arsey, "I'm not diving with him" sort of stuff. Now we have 17 paying members, a smaller boat, no where to keep it... apathy has just set in so it's time to give it up.

Plus, if we do actually go into debt, then all of the committee (myself included) are liable for that debt, not the members.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 18 Nov 2010, 18:35, Reply)