[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by Laker14

Maybe this will make the OP feel better.
Just this morning I was futzing around in the driveway, getting things in order for my snowbird departure.
A neighbor, 5 doors down, whom I had never met pulls up in his golf cart and says "I noticed you couldn't get to the top of your holly bush when you and your wife were trimming. I have an 8-foot ladder. Would you like to borrow it?"

Sure, so we go back to his place, get the ladder, set it up and he looks at me and says "are you comfortable with ladders?" I said "not totally but I have never fallen off one, yet", so he says "here, I'll do it. I've spent most of my life on ladders", so he proceeds to trim the top of the holly bush for me.

My neighbor's name is Larry. He's a nice man. For every jerk like the guy in the OP, there are dozens and dozens of Larrys in TV.

Take a few deep breaths, and be thankful to live here, with all of the Larrys.

We love you Larry!

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Laker14

Maybe this will make the OP feel better.
Just this morning I was futzing around in the driveway, getting things in order for my snowbird departure.
A neighbor, 5 doors down, whom I had never met pulls up in his golf cart and says "I noticed you couldn't get to the top of your holly bush when you and your wife were trimming. I have an 8-foot ladder. Would you like to borrow it?"

Sure, so we go back to his place, get the ladder, set it up and he looks at me and says "are you comfortable with ladders?" I said "not totally but I have never fallen off one, yet", so he says "here, I'll do it. I've spent most of my life on ladders", so he proceeds to trim the top of the holly bush for me.

My neighbor's name is Larry. He's a nice man. For every jerk like the guy in the OP, there are dozens and dozens of Larrys in TV.

Take a few deep breaths, and be thankful to live here, with all of the Larrys.

Well said.

Some time back a lady (not a Villager) was visiting our neighbor across the street. Came time to leave, her car, which was in the neighbor's driveway, wouldn't start: just enough energy in the battery for a couple of groans and then just clicking. I was out doing yard work and noticing her plight, offered to help. She was pretty worked up, planning on calling a road service to get her car towed to wherever it could be fixed. Being an ex-Minnesotan I never go anywhere without a pair of jumper cables, so I offered to jump her car and at least get it running. I had to manually push it out of the driveway onto the street (lady steered with the dead car in neutral) but once the cables were on it started right up. As she was not from around here I recommended a repair shop where I take our car, cautioning her not to turn the car off until she got there. She did, got her battery replaced, and all was well.

The point is that similar things are the norm in TV rather than the exception. Sure, there are always exceptions, but Villagers helping Villagers (and non-Villagers) are common occurrences.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

It ended with a question mark, so imho the title was merely asking, "Wazup?

Yes, wazup with the friendliest home town. Not with wazup with a crazy jerk driver.
Incident has little to do with Florida’s friendliest home time slogan. Just a jerk who most likely has always been a jerk.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

We love you Larry!

Ditto!

[Stu from NYC]

As far as I am concerned this is a very friendly place

[JohnN]

I think The Villages is basically friendly, but TV and the whole world is not as gentle and kind as the world used to be.
My wife and I are both pretty cautious and polite drivers - yes, it often does take us an extra minute to get somewhere.
Our rule is to always let someone who seems aggressive and in a big hurry to just get on ahead of us. Any confrontation could turn out to be very bad news nowadays, there are a lot of pretty crazed folks driving around.

~peace~

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by JohnN

I think The Villages is basically friendly, but TV and the whole world is not as gentle and kind as the world used to be.
My wife and I are both pretty cautious and polite drivers - yes, it often does take us an extra minute to get somewhere.
Our rule is to always let someone who seems aggressive and in a big hurry to just get on ahead of us. Any confrontation could turn out to be very bad news nowadays, there are a lot of pretty crazed folks driving around.

~peace~

I wish I had a little bit of your patience with people.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by JohnN

I think The Villages is basically friendly, but TV and the whole world is not as gentle and kind as the world used to be.
My wife and I are both pretty cautious and polite drivers - yes, it often does take us an extra minute to get somewhere.
Our rule is to always let someone who seems aggressive and in a big hurry to just get on ahead of us. Any confrontation could turn out to be very bad news nowadays, there are a lot of pretty crazed folks driving around.

~peace~

Your driving advice is words to live by!

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston

Your driving advice is words to live by!

Key word in your reply is "LIVE". Good!

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

I wish I had a little bit of your patience with people.

You don't have to be a Christian to ask, "what would Jesus do?" I'm an agnostic, but I often ask that question. I find it helps me to be more patient and avoid confrontation with jerks who have no patience of their own.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

You don't have to be a Christian to ask, "what would Jesus do?" I'm an agnostic, but I often ask that question. I find it helps me to be more patient and avoid confrontation with jerks who have no patience of their own.

Yeah, I find I'm on one extreme or the other. I am a huge pushover and very giving for people that treat me well, I am 'difficult' when people are an a$$ to me.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

Yeah, I find I'm on one extreme or the other. I am a huge pushover and very giving for people that treat me well, I am 'difficult' when people are an a$$ to me.

You’re a good guy.....now about that FarmerAll!

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston

Not correct...
Unless you moonlight as a gate attendant, you couldn't possibly say that with any certainty.

Who said “with certainty”? A very few Villagers do have pickup trucks watch your neighbors, I’m in north central and out of 100 owners, maybe 1 has a pick up.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Who said “with certainty”? A very few Villagers do have pickup trucks watch your neighbors, I’m in north central and out of 100 owners, maybe 1 has a pick up.

I think I'm 1 of 3 pickups in my little area. That's 3 houses out of about 25 or 30.

On my street at home the next 3 houses in each direction have a pickup (I'd guess it's about 40% of all vehicles).

It would be an interesting graphic to see it for all areas of the US or the world.

It's certainly less here but I bet there are more than you think. I currently have 3 full size pickups all in.

[tophcfa]

I don’t blame the OP for being angry, if that happened to my wife I would be on the hunt for the idiot as well. But I also agree with others, don’t paint the Villages with a broad brush because of one incident. There are jerks everywhere in this world. Unfortunately, I have been up north for about a month now since spending over three wonderful months in the Villages this winter. I easily have come across more aholes in a short period up north than I did over the entire winter. It’s all relative.