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Originally Posted by Luggage
There certainly are a lot of stuck-up people in The Villages
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It is interesting that the "stuck up" (AKA unfriendly, jerks, selfish, etc. etc.) get so much notice in these discussions.
Something akin to the bad drivers. We all see 'em and complain about 'em, but does anyone actually realize that they get so much notice because of their relative rarity? Sometimes the streets and freeways up at home resembled giant pinball machines: that, with much LESS traffic than is down here.
Golf carts? Well, not many of them in Minnesota, but the principle is the same. I tested it out on a few of my walks lately. On on walk I counted over 150 carts on a four-mile stretch. Precisely TWO were driving in what I perceived to be a reckless or dangerous manner. Were I going with the expectation I'd have gotten from reading these discussions, I would have expected no less than probably twenty times that number. But human nature being what it is, I definitely remembered the two jerks.
To use a colloquialism from where I hail from, they stood out like two t_rds in a punch bowl. But were the t_rds in the majority, I doubt we'd even be discussing them.