Talk:Toastmasters
Club Meetings
[edit]About exceptions to meetings:
How many toastmasters does it take to change a light bulb? 4! One to change the light bulb and 3 to stand around and say "that's not how we do it in my club." Many clubs do things a little differently than described (though all have similarities). I've been to a lot of clubs where everyone participates in table topics (obviously not noon clubs where they meet on the luch hour). Many clubs don't have a grammarian (unless we have a school teacher I don't trust them to be right about the grammar anyways). Some clubs permit non-manual speeches (though you can really make any topic fit a manual speech).
The point is we don't want to say "a meeting is like this" because there are always exceptions.