Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: noisy dining

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

I still occaisionally attend dinners, but later, mostly after the high
energy has left, and not to eat, just to hang out and talk. So I just don't
eat there.

This is MY trip, I was raised in a small family, where dinners were quiet,
medatative times. The loud, boisterousness of community dinner unsettles my
stomach, gives me indigestion. So I eat at home, then if I am feeling
socialable, I walk over to the commonhouse and chat with neighbors. I would
no more insist that the community run dinners to suit me than I would
anything else. Appartently the rest of the regulars don't mind the noise or
even find it stimulating. Differences.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org [mailto:cohousing-l [at] 
> freedom.mtn.org]On
> Behalf Of Judy Baxter
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 9:27 PM
> Subject: noisy dining
>
>
> Hi Cohousers-
>
> I posted something like this a few weeks ago, before leaving for
> a few days,
> then the network  went down, and I guess it didn't go.  So,
> apologies for the
> delay.
>
> I was sad to read Rob's comment about no longer attending common dinners
> because of noise.  This is an issue that concerns many groups,
> and we've had
> various suggestions before.  Our group is appraching again the
> discussion of
> ways to moderate the noise.
>
> I am wondering, Rob (or others) if there has been any luck with
> expectations of
> a quiet time at dinner? We tried that for a while, and it helped
> briefly, i
> think, but eroded.  Any ideas for ways to remind people?  We hope to do
> something with the ceiling, but don't know when.
>
> Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities
> Area, Mpls.,MN
> -- e-mail:    baxter [at] epivax.epi.umn.edu
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