I understand, Marie, but let me say that I never dismissed your opinion at all and I think, if you re-read the posts you will see that I didn't.

I was simply pointing out that there can be a difference in the way people perceive things according to age -- it's just the way it is. It doesn't mean that one view is right or one is wrong, only that they may be different. I can tell you that many of my opinions have changed as I have gotten older (and especially after I had children) because circumstances change and there are just things I know now than I didn't know when I was younger - simply because life is a huge learning experience. I think it would be very rare to find someone who didn't change their opinions on some things over their lifetimes. At any rate, I never meant to imply that your opinion was wrong -- only that it might be different from some people's because of the age difference.

As far as immaturity, as I've already said, it depends on the person and why they are going to a club and what they are doing there. I don't have any patience with people doing drugs, getting drunk or having promiscuous sex -- and sometimes that seems to be the thing that these places seem to be promoting more than anything else -- so that really turns me off and I admit that freely. But, again, that's just my view on them -- doesn't mean that that's the way they really are. And I'll never really know because I'll never be in one.

Anyway, I would suggest if anyone reads something on this board (or any other) that bothers them, it's usually best to contact the person privately and ask them what they meant or let them know something they said upset you instead of bringing it to the open board. I can say from experience that, almost always, the person didn't mean any harm -- they either just worded something poorly or the reader read it in the wrong spirit. It happens all the time (mostly on bigger boards but it can happen, obviously, on smaller ones, too).

Lynn