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For years, I would attend certain functions with my husband, and not speak to anyone that I didnt already know.... This of course gave me the image of being a total B!!! I didnt talk because for one I didnt know anyone.... for two they all gave me that nose-up -in-the-air-I-am-better than you look.

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THAT'S IT, THAT'S ME AND THAT'S THE LOOK I GET!!!

I have noticed that one of the moms kind of dominates the conversations. One day she was talking and talking and talking to this other mom, and the other woman was just doing a "uh huh" every once in a while and looking around like "get me OUT of here", and the dominant mom just kept yacking away, oblivious that no one was really paying attention.

It's frustrating, because all of these people know each other from years and years of living in the same neighborhoods and kids going to school together. One, I'm shy and don't think I have anything to offer anybody. Two, I'm an outsider to begin with, so that makes it twice as hard.

Guess I need to follow the advice in one of SJ's threads. "To increase your success rate, double your failure rate" (paraphrased).