Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 14, 2020

I bearly wave at everyone.

The only times I wave at unknown people is when I’m working at the grocery store: 1) if I’m hauling carts and stop to let the shoppers go ahead of me and/or 2) I arrive at a cashier who called me to help a shopper carry their groceries out.

Why not wave at people you don’t know? You’ll never see them again anyway. It sure beats making small talk with them and finding out they’re dorks.

Better than keeping your face buried in your iPhone ignoring other people!

wave at parades and trains and boats but not planes lol

This assumes that pluggers don’t live in crowded cities.

Better to greet someone you don’t know than to give them the finger. Wanna guess which I find people doing more and more of these days? Too many pluggers are far too suspicious of people even waving to them or just saying “hello.” How hard hearted and sad is that? You can have your “Gimme mine and f’ you!” attitude and keep it festering away someplace else. I spend my days helping all sorts of people but meet only a precious few (and they are precious to me) who appreciate what they have and the kindness of others. These are really some sad, sad days.

yes, and going for walks, wave to all the other brave souls on the other side of street \|||/ :D

Why not wave ? Tis the nice thing to do ;-)

Amen, and say Hi!

True in the rural South! Love it!

My bicycle commute took me past the airport. I never failed to wave at planes on the runway.

as well you should….

In the south, waving is required. Don’t wave and you’re a snob.

Yeah, I do : )

As to the readers suggestions, there must be lots of Pluggers between the states of PA and IN, of which I live in one. Awright!

While driving a truck intrastate for 32 years in the desert southwest, invariably I found that when I left the limits of a big city for the rural areas in 90 percent of the rest of the state, people wave at each other. There are no strangers out there, only friends we haven’t met, yet.

Since Plugger land is usually rural. this is definitely the trend. Also big with us bikers.

Pluggers are friendly folk.. They know it’s embarrassing when only family shows up at funerals

of course, the type of wave varies somewhat depending on who they are

When I was growing up in Nebraska, my dad would drive with his right hand at 12 o’clock on the wheel; and, when another car approached, he would lift the 4 fingers up and tip them back and forth in a wave. The other car/truck would do the same. I asked him once if he knew who it was and he said, ‘no, but that didn’t matter.’ I still see people doing the “Nebraska wave” when I’m driving on country roads (lower speeds), occasionally in other states as well.

It’s kinda fun. You get the weirdest looks sometimes.

I still do that just in case I know them.

Only the mentally deficient.

In the South, that’s true.

Or if you live in farm country; everyone waves

I’m from the country, so even in the city, I wave a lot. I wave at the trash haulers when they go by in their truck. I wave at the firetruck. (I live close to a fire station). One day I was on the bus, stopped at a stop light. A car next to the bus had a little boy by the window, so I waved at him. He rustled around in a grocery sack for a moment, then showed me his pride and joy – a big, fresh orange! Made my day. I hope it made his, too.