On our very first visit to The Villages in 2002 we were greeted by some friends from back home who had already moved here. It was the night of the Marti Gras parade. (back when it was really, really nice and big). Anyway, they said, "Let's all go to the parade tonight, we went down and set up chairs early this morning."
My response was, "won't somebody steal them or move them or something?" The response was, "no, that's what everybody in the Villages does, it's the accepted practice." So, very early on we were under the impression everybody was good with it. We've never done it though for the reasons cited here.
As an interesting side note about that parade, there were two women standing next to me. Somebody on a float was throwing out those 2 cent Marti Gras necklaces. Both of the women caught it at the same time and began a tug of war and shoving match over that stupid cheesy string of plastic beads. Finally, the string broke and the beads flew all over the place, but the women kept shoving each other until some guys broke it up. I looked at my wife and said, "Hmmmmmmmm" Florida's friendliest home town!" Have never seen anything like it since.
JLK
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