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Does ne ieei Dad u ms wave isn t returned? He shakes his head “no.” “I’ve done my duty. If they don’t do theirs, I can’t help it,” he said.
Mr. Johnson may not realize it, but his persistent politeness on the road—along with the persistence of other friendly old-timers—has converted hundreds of newcomers to Rappahannock’s waves.
It doesn’t happen overnight because, after all, habits do take a while to develop. But Bethany Craig, who moved here from New York City in 1973, will tell you that she was delighted at the hand-waving when she first arrived. By her second month in the county, she was waving automatically at everyone.
“I came from a place where nobody even knows the people in the apartment next door to a place where everybody waved at everybody. I thought I was in Heaven,” she said.
Mrs. Peacock says as soon as she realized that this wasn’t the sort of place where people make obscene gestures through their car windows, she took up waving happily at every vehicle she passes on a secondary road. And most, she says, wave back, with the notable exceptions being people in fancy, fast cars like BMWs.
“Why would you speed on these beautiful country roads and miss all the natural beauty?” she says. Be
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