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hoods where folks really know one another. On crowded city streets you are more likely to get a different gesture.)
But here we still say “hey” as often as possible. Even to strangers. It is a way of making friendly contact, and it just the way we do it around here. This is not a hard and fast rule. It is o.k., for example, not to wave if you are distracted because it is almost time to pay income tax, or if your transmission is falling out, or if you encounter a truck in a curve on your side of the road, or if your old hound dog has eaten a tire tool and you are rushing him to the vet. But it is good etiquette to always wave if you can.
The only people who don’t wave are the aforementioned, plus those who really don’t like you, city people who are lost, and guests at The Inn. However, most guests at The Inn will wave after a day or so of getting through the culture shock, but there are those unfortunate few who have seen “Easy Rider” and “Deliverance” and believe that stuff and are therefore reluctant to engage socially with people in pickup trucks anyway.
Politics ain’t beanbag: The gubernatorial race has cranked up and as this is being written before the state Republican convention I don’t whom the G.O.R nominee will be. But I have some advice for that person and for all the party faithful who are looking to chop up Mark Warner. Get an idea.
The other day Mark Earley, at this writing the Republican frontrunner, lashed out at Warner as a “multimillionaire”
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