>A conversation I've heard many times: Setting:Hobby Shop
What's MAAC?
>STAFF: Oh, it's the Canadian model airplane club. It costs $100/year.

But then, nerd, do you intercede on those many occasions and point out that it is NOT $100 a year but $75 ... and explain the real advantages of the organisation, the importance of insurance (and not expound on the many criticisms that you've voiced here from an apparently narrow personal viewpoint ) or just stand by and smile as another potential Member is lost ... ? At such times you have the opportunity to make a positive contribution to Canadian modeling... if you wish to make it.