I would work on bigger and better things, go to a meeting/pick up an "outside" hobby of some sort on your own rather than bother with someone you think is a "dead end"?

Can you think of any activities that are low-key and might have a single man or two? Volunteer activities, plant-plants-along-the-rive for the environment, that sort of thing? Church group outing or volunteering to help with groups of younger people, etc.?