Do you wave?

[adirondackmtnman]

Hi Adirondack-- not recognizing Black Brook I had to look it up. You're way upstate-- very nice country around there!
I'm down here in the Catskills in Delaware County. Actually make it up in your general direction fairly often as I have friends in Glens Falls, but don't typically go much above Lake George.

Yes, we're definitely way up here, but we like it that way...We're well away from the tourist crowds, at least until the leaf peepers come out in the fall, which is a funny breed all in itself...They'll stop right in front of your house, with you working 20 feet away from them in the yard, pull out their cameras and start snapping pics, look at you, and pile back into the car without a 'hello.' or a wave, and they're gone...people are funny for sure..

 

[cqaigy2]

Wave at the neighbors, road workers and such.

Some years ago, working in a small village, Koyukuk Alaska for about a year. Pretty isolated small population so it wasn't long before you pretty much met and knew something about everybody. So the work was over and i was going back down south and flew into Seattle. It was pretty funny because i was a little befuddled wanting to wave at everybody because it had become such a habit.

 

[polo1665]

A little different in my neck of the woods. It's a rural area, but the road going by our property has a 55mph speed limit. If I'm out near enough to the road and recognize the car (by sight or if they honk) I will surely wave. If I am pre-occupied they'll have to honk to get a reaction. If I stood there to watch and wave at every car that went by, two things would happen, nothing would get done and my arm would likely fall off.

I gotta say though, the people around here are real friendly. Even if I'm not out there, a lot of them will leave something behind on their way by to make sure I knew they were there. It's not usually anything big, sometimes just an empty beer bottle or maybe a McDonnie's bag, but it seems that quite a few of them are kind enough to take the time out of their busy day, and hey, it's the thought that counts.

 

[jmc]

Great thread since it reminds me an old video cassette we had entitled "How to talk Minnesotan". Just found it on YouTube here:

How To Speak Minnesotan - YouTube

It's a 25 minute segment on social quirks of Midwestern residents. Proper waving etiquette starts at 11:29 minutes into it.

 

[toppop52]

A little different in my neck of the woods. It's a rural area, but the road going by our property has a 55mph speed limit. If I'm out near enough to the road and recognize the car (by sight or if they honk) I will surely wave. If I am pre-occupied they'll have to honk to get a reaction. If I stood there to watch and wave at every car that went by, two things would happen, nothing would get done and my arm would likely fall off.

I gotta say though, the people around here are real friendly. Even if I'm not out there, a lot of them will leave something behind on their way by to make sure I knew they were there. It's not usually anything big, sometimes just an empty beer bottle or maybe a McDonnie's bag, but it seems that quite a few of them are kind enough to take the time out of their busy day, and hey, it's the thought that counts.

We must have some of the same neighbors, one left me an empty 6 pack the other week and some chip bags, bless their hearts! Gotta love nice people.

 

[adirondackmtnman]

I gotta say though, the people around here are real friendly. Even if I'm not out there, a lot of them will leave something behind on their way by to make sure I knew they were there. It's not usually anything big, sometimes just an empty beer bottle or maybe a McDonnie's bag, but it seems that quite a few of them are kind enough to take the time out of their busy day, and hey, it's the thought that counts.

:laughing:I can sympathize with the trash and beer cans along the road...Sometimes it's like they're having a contest to see how many cans of brew they can put away and throw out the window before they get home.

 

[Soundguy]

the road my farm is on.. people love to leave trash on the roadside..

 

[jmc]

Don't take the trash personally. They're just leaving a trail to find their way back.

 

[polo1665]

We must have some of the same neighbors, one left me an empty 6 pack the other week and some chip bags, bless their hearts! Gotta love nice people.

Had a co-worker spot me one year with a trash bag cleaning up the roadside in front of my place. He told me I reminded him of the Indian with the tear in his eye in that old commercial. I got a chuckle out of that.

 

[daugen]

I used to, but everyone is texting or talking now, no time to wave.

Forty years ago downtown in our little town, with its one traffic light, it was helpful that I was good with cars, as it was a
sort of a quiz to figure out who was coming by identifying their car fast enough. boy have times changed.

Bad enough the morons throw out plastic refuse, it was the broken bottles that really frosted me as a kid. Tetanus specials in the dirt, and often thrown up on our road bank so I had to scramble up to clean up the mess. Where the poison sumac was too. What a pleasant detail. It was not optional... Not much was.

And no matter how many times I asked myself "how can people do this", I never found the answer. I guess very different wiring.