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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LostDutchman, post: 839004, member: 16994&quot;]I had a discussion yesterday with an old time collector. His advice was to &quot;not get grumpy&quot;. I think what he was referring to was the fact that some of the old time dealers after 30 or 40 or 50 years start to get &quot;grumpy&quot;. They don&#039;t take the time to encourage younger generations to pick up the hobby and sometimes even scare people right out of the hobby. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not casting all of the older folk as this type as I&#039;m sure it&#039;s a great minority but this doesn&#039;t change the fact that I do hear stories about it all the time. I have personally seen wonderful examples of the opposite as well where an older gentleman will take the time to speak with a YN and take the time to try to pass some of their knowledge down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think the hobby is on the way out but rather going through yet another metamorphosis. As the age of technology continues to progress I think in 10 years we will not even recognize the hobby from what it was 10 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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