As a Wife, mum of 2 and an OOFer I think I can honestly say that a meet is what you make of it, our boys age 4 and 7 have been to all of the Lakes meets and the last 3 Newent meets plus a York meet and numerous day gatherings. If you have the confidence to go off and do things with your kids while men stand round with their hands in their pockets looking at one bloke working then that's fab. If not then I guess you need to accept what OOF meets are and get on with it.
They are generally held on family friendly sites which are safe for children to run about on. I don't really see the need for a family friendly meet as that's ruling out a fair few people who don't have children and to me defeats the object of OOF!
Our boys absolutely love going to these meets, they've made loads of friends and look forward to seeing regular faces again. The OOF widows, those that don't have children with them, are also very good at going off shopping etc.
At the end of the day its a car club meet, its only for a weekend, if you don't like your bloke going off to drool over cars, don't come! Let him go have fun on his own!
Not often I feel compelled to agree with Ljay
, but that was my understanding (ie, all meets are family friendly), but maybe I've missed something?
Basically, the way I see it, people are free to do whatever they like during the day - play around on site, go out on their own as families, go out with other OOFers, be it the zoo, museums, shopping etc. OK, naturally there is an evening get together, and people do over indulge
Its unclear if the Lakes 2012 is going ahead yet, so we may be after another venue
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