helo-watt,
Give the clubs a second chance. It's kind of like the old saying "you can't judge a book by the cover." Get in and spend some time with them and then see if you like them.

We have a guy at our field who had "done everything" and "used to be a competition level pattern pilot". But when he flies he can barely get up and get back down. I'll be generous and say that he has a habit of stretching out the truth. Yes, he tells some tall tales. Anyway, he loves to get over to people who show up at the field to look. He will talk their ears off about how to do this and how to do that. We usually try to watch him when he does things like this and one of us will go over and try to get into the conversation. We do this because our guys likes to tell new people how "hard it is to do this", he does this so that he looks better because he can do it (barely). Anyway, we know that he's scared a few people off from flying because he told them it was so hard.

My point above was that you can't always tell from talking to one or two people. Get in and meet more people from the club. Especially meet the instructors, because they will be who you spend a lot of time with as you start flying. If after meeting them all you still don't get a good feeling about the club, then by all means move to another club. Also, don't think that they are laughing at you because you are new and make mistakes. Remember, we were all new fliers at one time or another. I have a joke that I share with my students. I tell them that when they are learning to fly nobody will give them a hard time about mistakes while flying (you know, rough landings, missed approaches, lousy looking loops, etc....) while they are still training, but as soon as they solo they are fair game for all the ribbing and kidding around.

Hope this helps

Ken