Fun while driving in the 'hood

[RickCarpenter]

OK, I've seen posts about tailgators and otherwise idiot drivers, but how 'bout some fun? We live in a golf community, about 2000 homes, mostly older folks. At 45, I'm a young punk.

Now that the weather is good for driving with the window down, I can have my fun in the 'hood. What is it? I wave. That's right, wave, I wave at everyone. Big 'ol waves, with my arm all the way out of the window like I know them. The confused looks on their faces are great. Sometimes I can even see them looking in their rearviews at me as we pass, more than likely saying "Who the **** was that?" I laugh my butt off all the way...

Yeah, I'm a punk alright, a dorky punk tho'.

[Stick]

We still do that........all the time! I even get people honking their horns at me if they see me out clearing snow on the tractor, or working in the fields in the summertime. It's called oldfashioned friendliness where I live.

[Tim Clark]

I drive LOML nuts doing that!

I wave or they do, she asks "who's that?"
"A neighbor", I reply.
"Do you know these people?"
"No, I just wave because they're neighbors."

[thiggy]

I often spend time at our old family home in rural central Miss. We wave at folks who drive past the house. Also as two cars meet on the road a nod or raised finger (not middle) is often exchanged.

[Tundra_Man]

My wife's a youth pastor, so I'm often driving a van load of kids to various destinations. One of our favorite games is when we see a pedestrian, I honk the horn, then the whole van load waves in the opposite direction.

Usually the people stop, scratch their head and try to figure out to whom we were waving.

Simple pleasures...

[LinuxRandal]

I often spend time at our old family home in rural central Miss. We wave at folks who drive past the house. Also as two cars meet on the road a nod or raised finger (not middle) is often exchanged.

Nah, as two cars get close, it's a raised, not middle finger. If they MEET (crash) it's a middle one!

[jziegler]

My wife's a youth pastor, so I'm often driving a van load of kids to various destinations. One of our favorite games is when we see a pedestrian, I honk the horn, then the whole van load waves in the opposite direction.

Usually the people stop, scratch their head and try to figure out to whom we were waving.

Simple pleasures...

This reminds me of a nice way to deal with tailgaters, if you have a passenger in the car. Simply have the passenger turn around and wave at the tailgater. Sometimes the tailgater will think that you know them, realize that they are too close and may tell everyone how badly the drive, and back off a bit. Most of the time, it does nothing. But, it never hurts. Of course, this works better in the friendlier parts of the world than it does here in the NJ/Philly/NY area.

-Jim

[John Hunter]

Back home in southern Indiana everyone waves.

[rg32]

Heck
Not waiving or using some friendly form of acknowledgment in Vermont might get you a reputation of being a snob, just down right unfriendly or even worse a flat lander.

[sacherjj]

Back home in southern Indiana everyone waves.

I don't know. I guess which part of Sourthen Indiana you are talking about. Jeffersonville has gotten big enough that this isn't true, when I head back home.

[AlanJ]

It's not that I'm not friendly.. but in my neck of the woods almost everyone that passes me has their cell phone glued to one ear - so it's not a good idea to encourage them to take the other hand off the wheel to wave back!