its a bit like that folksong - we hope for something better by and by...was it Peggy and Ewan? or Ian and Lorna? used to sing it?

I think the key to it, is that you have to enjoy these people as people - rather than expert folksingers. I suppose if they are horrible offensive buggers - then you're in a bit of a mess. but as Winnie the Pooh said, most people are all right.

The anal retentive with his guitar tunings, the fussy old woman with his enormous ringbinder, the squeezebox merchant who takes off every summer to Brittany and Albania to bore the locals shitless with dance tunes no one dances to........the list is endless. they are there to be enjoyed....abit like the Pickwick club.