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[Laker14]

A couple of days ago I was driving 466A, from Morse Blvd. to Lowes. I had to stop for the light at Buena Vista, and traffic just looked wrong going north on BV.
Looked like perhaps an accident.

Two solid lanes of traffic heading north, then the right lane was stopping and backing up as it crossed 466A, then I saw one car, but only one car stopped in the right lane, about 100 feet north of the intersection.

Then I saw two men trying to make their way, through the traffic to cross the two lanes of BV to the median. This didn't look good.

My light turned green, but we couldn't go anywhere because of the backed up northbound traffic on BV.

Then I saw it. The car had stopped, and the two men got out and walked across the traffic to the median so they could get a selfie in front of the "The Villages" sign on the median.

Head shake.

[DonH57]

A couple of days ago I was driving 466A, from Morse Blvd. to Lowes. I had to stop for the light at Buena Vista, and traffic just looked wrong going north on BV.
Looked like perhaps an accident.

Two solid lanes of traffic heading north, then the right lane was stopping and backing up as it crossed 466A, then I saw one car, but only one car stopped in the right lane, about 100 feet north of the intersection.

Then I saw two men trying to make their way, through the traffic to cross the two lanes of BV to the median. This didn't look good.

My light turned green, but we couldn't go anywhere because of the backed up northbound traffic on BV.

Then I saw it. The car had stopped, and the two men got out and walked across the traffic to the median so they could get a selfie in front of the "The Villages" sign on the median.

Head shake.

Stick around. You'll see much, much more!:smiley:

[Randall55]

Stick around. You'll see much, much more!:smiley:We live in a world where some believe selfies are more important than safety. Get the right picture and you will go viral.Yippee! Thousands of strangers looking at MY PICTURE. Who wouldn't want that?

They are not the first to do something stupid and will not be the last.

[RICH1]

welcome to "The Land of Entitlement"
you may experience and see things in The Villages that Ripley couldn't document....

[manaboutown]

May have been a tourist. Why would a local bother to do this.

[asianthree]

Ok have to ask, and I have serious knowledge of the question.

Were they Asian? Cause its a culture that truly is born with a camera in their hand:clap2:

[Laker14]

Ok have to ask, and I have serious knowledge of the question.

Were they Asian? Cause its a culture that truly is born with a camera in their hand:clap2:

I don't think so. I wasn't that close, and by the time I saw what they were doing I was driving through the intersection.

The narrative I concocted in my own head is that these two guys had travelled a long way to see TV with their own eyes, having seen and read all of the hype that abounds about this place, in newspaper articles and on YouTube, and just had to take a picture to show their friends and loved ones back home that they actually had arrived at the gates of the mythical land known as "The Villages".

You raise an interesting point though. My take on this is that now that nearly everyone has a very nice camera handy this is no longer so much of an "Asian" thing as it is an "everyone" thing. It's like, unless you take a selfie, you weren't really there.

[asianthree]

I don't think so. I wasn't that close, and by the time I saw what they were doing I was driving through the intersection.

The narrative I concocted in my own head is that these two guys had travelled a long way to see TV with their own eyes, having seen and read all of the hype that abounds about this place, in newspaper articles and on YouTube, and just had to take a picture to show their friends and loved ones back home that they actually had arrived at the gates of the mythical land known as "The Villages".

You raise an interesting point though. My take on this is that now that nearly everyone has a very nice camera handy this is no longer so much of an "Asian" thing as it is an "everyone" thing. It's like, unless you take a selfie, you weren't really there.

There was a group of Asians in Brownwood visiting. I didn’t count but must have taken 50 pics of the water tower. Then walked down to the cattle and cracker.

I have to say I have watched the other grandparents, (always a camera) take hundreds of pics in minutes, of the same thing. It is a stereotype, but Asian culture make 🤳 use a very small percentage.

Our “Asian” grandchildren take a fraction of pics compared to their grandparents. So maybe there is hope for the future.