[Mike Simonds]

What I would do is to keep a low profile. Don't try to rock the boat. Don't let their bad habits get you rattled. Lead by example. Make sure your mechanics, rules knowledge, professional appearance, etc. are stellar. Perhaps you will find one or two converts and then together you can change the attitude of your group.

Like the good book says, place your lamp on a hilltop; don't hide it under a bushel basket. But above all, be polite and humble. In good time you will uplift the entire group to a higher standard.

Here is a poem by William Blake about bringing light to the darkness and the power of creative change:

Tyger, tyger burning bright,
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symetry?

In what distant deeps or skies,
Burnt the fire of thine eyes,
On what wings dare he aspire,
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart,
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the anvil, what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain,
What the hammer, what dread clasp,
Did thy deadly terrors grasp?

And when the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see,
Did He who made the Lamb, make thee?

Tyger, tyger burning bright,
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symetry?