tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post5759550816392397725..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Strange habit.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-91309427353627062182010-11-05T18:21:04.909-04:002010-11-05T18:21:04.909-04:00Everybody still waves on the backroads around here...Everybody still waves on the backroads around here. If you are broken down they stop. If you are broken down long there will soon be a party<br /><br />regards<br />Dandanontherockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04589728957913623326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63096979654757208352010-11-04T11:27:43.150-04:002010-11-04T11:27:43.150-04:00Anonymous said:
"Out here, pickups wave, cars...Anonymous said:<br />"Out here, pickups wave, cars with older drivers wave and we ignore the SUVs - they never wave. Everyone on back roads waves, some folks on the middlin' state roads waves, and we don't worry about it on the US highways. I agree, it is a way of acknowledging the existence of the other driver."<br /><br />This person speaks truth. It'd be nice if the yuppies in their SUVs would wave more often. Once upon a time, when everybody waved, my old Blazer fuel pump died. A ranch hand towed me into the closest town with a garage. When waving started to die, so did stopping to help a stranded motorist. Keep it up!Just My 2¢https://www.blogger.com/profile/01870976662057532723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-16544000397302445472010-11-04T10:05:58.846-04:002010-11-04T10:05:58.846-04:00Out here, pickups wave, cars with older drivers wa...Out here, pickups wave, cars with older drivers wave and we ignore the SUVs - they never wave. Everyone on back roads waves, some folks on the middlin' state roads waves, and we don't worry about it on the US highways. I agree, it is a way of acknowledging the existence of the other driver.<br /><br /> And I've been guilty of the "side of the road high-level conference" on occasion. It starts with a wave, then a "howdy. How's your folks?" And once it gets into wheat or cattle, you might as well settle in with a book because we're gonna be here for a while!<br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-62765785894570906142010-11-04T07:10:27.211-04:002010-11-04T07:10:27.211-04:00Over here it's an (insert hard-to-maintain-car...Over here it's an (insert hard-to-maintain-car-of-choice) thing, mostly. Especially a Land-Rover thing. With Land-Rovers there's an added twist, in that new (post around '85 or so) Land-Rovers don't count, unless they wave first.<br /><br />These days I don't drive the Rand-Lover enough, I fear people might think I'm rude.<br /><br />But I do get some strange stares from Land-Rover people when I drive the "normal" car and forget, and wave at them...<br /><br />WV: bewave. Fitting.wrmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14102470737392693528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-41948222603826755702010-11-04T01:23:37.156-04:002010-11-04T01:23:37.156-04:00Definitely the standard mode of behaviour here in ...Definitely the standard mode of behaviour here in Western Australia on all country / outback roads. <br /><br />As is stopping to check that everyone's okay if their car is stopped beside the road (which was quite, um, interesting when the girls were young and we did lots of long country trips).Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506274310934059070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-69154237492256178712010-11-04T00:52:35.841-04:002010-11-04T00:52:35.841-04:00My brother and I were returning from Boomershoot i...My brother and I were returning from Boomershoot in Idaho. He was driving his freshly restored '68 Plymouth Fury III, and we were driving along with the windows down enjoying the scenery. While we were still up on the plateau, we came around a corner and an old farmer smiled and waved to us from his front yard as if we were the best of neighbors. Of course, having been raised to be gentleman, we smiled and waved right back. I think it's the way people used to be raised before the 60's generation came along.<br /><br /><b>BoxStockRacer</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-20608805017527413752010-11-04T00:36:36.153-04:002010-11-04T00:36:36.153-04:00It's not just a country thing. Here in Cincinn...It's not just a country thing. Here in Cincinnati, folks from the BIG cities constantly remark on how friendly people are and how total strangers will "Hellohowareyou" them. Totally amazing.<br /><br />I imagine it could be a bit disconcerting to a New Yawker just in for P&G when a hot blonde with a great kick laps him on Grandin Road at Oh-my-god-thirty in the morning and has enough breath to get out, "Hey! Howzitgoin'?"<br /><br />MMark Algerhttp://www.babytrollblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-64016759770909532022010-11-04T00:32:39.641-04:002010-11-04T00:32:39.641-04:00Here in Kansas, I find that you can ID whole categ...Here in Kansas, I find that you can ID whole categories of folks by the way they wave. The mostly-retired farmers lift the pointer finger, the not-quite-retired farmers lift two, the young guys and gals wave with the whole hand, and the little old ladies hold their hands up at shoulder height and wave their fingers. <br /><br />Occasionally, you come across somebody who tosses you a salute with two fingers.<br /><br />Oh, and I almost forgot. If you meet a really taciturn farmer, he won’t wave, he will nod his head slowly once, while keeping eye contact. If he nods down-and-then-up, the proper response is to nod back up-and-then-down. <br /> <br />My family had this whole conversation over dinner this evening. Strange how great minds think alike!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77073545890800151222010-11-03T23:39:07.425-04:002010-11-03T23:39:07.425-04:00A college friend just moved back to the college to...A college friend just moved back to the college town from New Jersey and part of his reasons was that he could wave to people and have them wave back. I went up with him to drive his car back while he brought a second truck back and while sitting on his porch a woman walked by with her dog. She didn't howdy me back. <br /><br />It's not a bad habit to have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-49367018264486686462010-11-03T23:16:18.014-04:002010-11-03T23:16:18.014-04:00The handshake or wave:
Just a friendly acknowledg...The handshake or wave:<br /><br />Just a friendly acknowledgement.<br /><br />Plus, an empty and extended weapon hand is always a good sign.<br /><br />ATAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-11963984083289663612010-11-03T22:08:55.092-04:002010-11-03T22:08:55.092-04:00If I wave and you don't wave back, I let you k...If I wave and you don't wave back, I let you know you're number one.Jeffrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-69340313437010856942010-11-03T21:23:22.214-04:002010-11-03T21:23:22.214-04:00"It's just a drive-by handshake, with all..."It's just a drive-by handshake, with all that that implies."<br /><br />That pretty much sums it up around here. The ones that wave are the same ones who will stop and help you change a flat or loan (read "give") you a gallon of chainsaw fuel to get to the station down the road. After a storm, they're the same ones who'll be using that ever-present chainsaw to clear the road at oh-dark-thirty on their way to work. Not just the truck drivers; I once witnessed the above scene being performed out of the back of a Ford Pinto. Much of rural America is still a community, not a "neighborhood".Loose Gravelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12665764142290122709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70492322542268061102010-11-03T21:20:37.450-04:002010-11-03T21:20:37.450-04:00Yeah, it's apopulation density dependent thing...Yeah, it's apopulation density dependent thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-7010184941624390212010-11-03T20:51:14.551-04:002010-11-03T20:51:14.551-04:00You know what is fun? Waving at someone in traffi...You know what is fun? Waving at someone in traffic, and leaving they to wonder if they know you or not.<br /><br />I mean, if you aren't busy waving to people you do know.<br /><br />JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-14824602544568107052010-11-03T20:50:39.429-04:002010-11-03T20:50:39.429-04:00Not a strange habit, just one that has faded in ti...Not a strange habit, just one that has faded in time depending on where you are. I can go ten miles south and it is expected. Go much further north into the great unwashed in southwestern VA and it is de rigueur.<br /><br />Road trip from this summer invoking this quaint custom is <a href="http://keads-anotherday.blogspot.com/2010/06/time-space-distancepart-one.html" rel="nofollow">here.</a>Keadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09982258812373127063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-85551689699077563142010-11-03T20:47:30.850-04:002010-11-03T20:47:30.850-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Keadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09982258812373127063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-16251361764146014712010-11-03T19:41:25.378-04:002010-11-03T19:41:25.378-04:00It's just a drive-by handshake, with all that ...It's just a drive-by handshake, with all that that implies.<br /><br />ATAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-38347599128138754232010-11-03T18:11:01.792-04:002010-11-03T18:11:01.792-04:00In rural Pa and So. KY it would be rude not to wav...In rural Pa and So. KY it would be rude not to wave to someone who makes eye contact while driving. <br /><br />I would be impolite not to say hello or "Mornin" to folks while getting coffee.<br /><br />It would be unthinkable to drive by a disabled car on a country road with out checking to see if they need help.<br /><br />The thing that bothered my KY coworkers when we went to NYC was no one would look them in the eye. They found it very troubling.<br /><br />GerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-79935298825592122622010-11-03T18:09:52.690-04:002010-11-03T18:09:52.690-04:00Having lived in small towns and large towns I alwa...Having lived in small towns and large towns I always just thought of this as a common curtesy, that you just don't do in crowded areas because you'd be jerking your hand up and down all day and looking like a twit. :-)TimPhttp://blog.timp.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-13713250171276633732010-11-03T17:51:27.031-04:002010-11-03T17:51:27.031-04:00Here in North Idaho it's the height of rudenes...Here in North Idaho it's the height of rudeness to not wave to your fellow locals. Rude to the point that, at one point, one of my neighbors apologized for a time in which she failed to wave to me because she "didn't recognize my rig."<br /><br />Think of it as the rural equivalent of the neighborhood watch keeping an eye out for suspicious vehicles.Melody Byrnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08135367196079991933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-88589665493116463202010-11-03T17:41:57.055-04:002010-11-03T17:41:57.055-04:00Trade in that BMW on a real convertible and exper...Trade in that BMW on a <i><b>real </b></i> convertible and experience waves like you've never experienced before.<br />I suggest a TJ, not a JK. JK ranks have been infiltrated with soccer moms and mall crawling posers. (I know, since I have a 4-door JK and often get snubbed unless I'm doorless and covered in mud.)Buzznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-3426413935747024982010-11-03T17:38:40.990-04:002010-11-03T17:38:40.990-04:00Here in rural Oklahoma, it's just ordinary goo...Here in rural Oklahoma, it's just ordinary good manners.DJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-6138993979633498402010-11-03T17:07:47.347-04:002010-11-03T17:07:47.347-04:00There is some technique involved as well. On those...There is some technique involved as well. On those lane-and-a-half back country roads you drive with your hand draped on the top of the steering wheel. The wave is accomplished with a single lifting of the index finger of that hand. Not more than half way. Mandatory in pick-up trucks, optional in sedans. Ignored in soccer mom vans because they have their cell-phones plastered to their ears.Ed Rasimushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13667325554289268659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-27349058052692077432010-11-03T16:53:07.764-04:002010-11-03T16:53:07.764-04:00I always did the wave and honk thing on the twisty...I always did the wave and honk thing on the twisty one lane blacktop of Killingworth CT as a kid, but that may have been due to the fact that 'purt near everyone up and down the road was blood kin.<br /><br /> Good thing about living in a large rural Mick family spread out along several miles of forest road, come 5 o'clock I could walk into any of 7 or 8 houses and sit down to dinner.<br /><br /> Bad thing was that any blood kin more than 7 or 8 years older could fetch me one up alongside the ear if he or she thought I was being snotty. A trade off.<br /><br /> Hey Tammy. Am I getting you down here for a monster steak at Angelico's and a tour of the shooting iron factory before they hie your kiester back out to the flat places? Drop me a line at my e-mail. Ed.Ed Fosternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-85171679989515563592010-11-03T16:38:10.124-04:002010-11-03T16:38:10.124-04:00When I lived in the country, that was just what ev...When I lived in the country, that was just what everyone did, whether you knew them or not. So the transition to doing it on my motorcycle to other riders wasn't a big thing. I have found that, at least in this area, the only thing on two wheels that no one waves back to are the moped/scooter riders. I've never had a Harley rider not wave back when riding my old street bike or my current dual-sport.Laughingdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07788824586959334168noreply@blogger.com