Sept 29 2011 I purchased my very first Fiat (Fiona) and was introduced to a local car club ICCO Ottawa. Long story short some nice events, great people, lots of shared knowledge and life experiences etc etc etc. Since day one I had noticed that there had seemed to be a broken down system of communication within the club. There would be scheduled events and then things would change (life happens that way) yet no one would communicate, or only a select few would actually know what was going on.Blah Blah Blah (never seemed to improve and by no way am i saying this is always happening however,).
A week today is my wedding, my beautiful, caring, understanding wife says " no honey, you have been awesome with all the work, planning etc you go to your cottage event with ICCO Ottawa and have a day to yourself" (without her and our 5yr old son) with your Fiat buddies. Excited I had planned for this and the day comes today and I arrive at 9:10am at the designated meeting point eager to see some friends and have a great time at the cottage, had wine and homemade food in tow.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
9:30am comes and goes still sitting alone in the empty parking lot waiting (in denial).
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
9:45am still no one
![Mad :x](./images/smilies/icon_mad.gif)
A couple who had come in from Perth (quite a distance) came and went.
It blows my mind how in this day and age with all the technology both low and high tech we seem to have a club that is ineffective in communicating to its members. This has happened one too many times for myself, no disrespect to others however, I am done.