Mel Chancey

They said, all right, listen, you're going to be 21 here soon.

Let's make it official.

You want to become an official hang around?

And I said, I do.

So I became an official hang around.

So when the nights they had their meetings, I would be down at the clubhouse outside, not previous to the meetings.

I'd be outside, you know, cleaning up the clubhouse, making sure, doing the duties and stuff like that, you know.

And I was only hanging around for a couple of months and they seen that, you know, my head was into this here, you know, and then I became an official prospect and, you know, and at the time.

What does the hang around mean?

What is the definition of that?

So the hang around is you come around, you come to the parties, you come to the meetings, you know, you're not in the meetings, but you get to know the guys, you're there, you know, you're kind of doing any kind of work.

I was outside watching the bikes while they were inside at the meetings.

When we used to go to the bars, I would, you know, if a member went to the bathroom, might stand outside the bathroom, making sure he was okay in there and nobody was gonna get him when he was vulnerable.

Same thing as a prospect, you know, you're just not officially a prospect.

You do a hang around status, you know?

And that could last- An indoctrination period.

Yes.

And that could last up until they have to vote on it.

If you become a prospect?

To become a prospect.