Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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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. |
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Incident has little to do with Florida’s friendliest home time slogan. Just a jerk who most likely has always been a jerk.
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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~ |
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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.
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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.
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You’re a good guy.....now about that FarmerAll!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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