Maybe switch tactics and try just the middle finger? Maybe you will get the middle finger "wave" back? Tee hee...

Hi hulahips: I have been here 9 years this summer and as i recall some golf carts equipped themselves with mechanical hands that waved continually:wave:...and I suspect for the reason you cite above

Hi gerryann: pretty noticeable wasn't I . Bet you thought didn't realize a neck could go in all directions at the same time. :D

I'm Happy, Happy, Happy!!!

Here's a wave from Maine:wave:
or was I just swatting pesky blackfiies :jester:

You haven't come by me then. I wave at Walkers, Joggers and Golf cart drivers. Some get a hand wave some a head nod. Haven't needed to Salute yet as that's reserved for nasty people. Welcome aboard and don't mind some people not waving TV is a friendly place.

of course they are they left the cold weather state to play golf; l.o.l.

I wouldn't judge the friendliness of a person on whether they wave or not. Some people are in their own world thinking about things or enjoying the landscape or even just watching the cart path. There have been a lot of accidents and some people get nervous when carts are getting close to them.
I love people. I can't wave at every cart that passes by. I may smile or nod and sometimes I'm talking to the person riding with me.
Sometimes when someone waves & I realize it, they have already passed me.
Not everyone is a waver, but it doesn't mean they aren't friendly & nice people.

Do you have a Razorback logo on the front of your cart???

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

I don't always wave and I'm perfectly happy living here. :thumbup:

Sometimes I don't spot a wave until it's too late to respond. Other times I'm talking to my husband, other times, I'm thinking about a work project or I'm distracted by something going on in my life like my son who has deployed--again--to Afghanistan, or I'm thinking about my grandchildren. Other times, I'm the driver and I'm busy paying attention to the "road" and what the driver ahead of me is doing. Every now and again, I catch the wave on time and respond in kind. But not always. That said, I'm still a pretty friendly, nice person. If you didn't judge me based on whether or not I waved back at you while in my golf cart, you and your wife would probably like me. :D

Friends in strange places
 

Contact Southoftheborder....he has a person in his neighborhood waving to him all the time and is concerned he waves too much....Is anyone too happy?

What Bonnie said.

When I moved here I did not expect everyone to wave as they passed...........

They don't wave because there are too many golf carts passing each other. If you go to a motorcycle event such as Leesburg bike week, or Daytona bike week, you will rarely see bikers wave to each other because there are just too many bikes, that if they did wave, they would be doing nothing else. The same bikers will wave any other time.

You know, I was at Bonifay last week and when it began to rain, I started to put the enclosure down on a cart next to mine (notice the key word is "started") when the owner came out running of the golf shop and screaming "what the "f" are you doing"? I told him I was just trying to keep his stuff from getting wet. With that, he screamed "don't ever touch my f'ing cart again". I stayed calm and professional throughout the cussing I got, though I do wish he had crossed the line and tried to put hands on me. As I was leaving, I noticed he had a New Jersey license plate on the back of his cart. Next time when it starts to rain, you can be assured I won't touch another cart. I'm beginning to think the phrase "Florida's Friendliest Hometown" is a misnomer.

Again, I don't think that has anything to do with being a nice friendly person. Not everyone wants their stuff touched by someone they don't know. They may have personal things in their cart. Some people keep some money in their cart. I don't think anyone would think of going into someone's car. Golf cart is the same thing. I wouldn't want anyone to be putting the sides down on my golf cart.
Why would you have wanted him to put his hands on you and what difference does it make if his plate said New Jersey ?

Profanity
 

I feel sorry for a person that has to scream profanities to get the point across concerning someone putting down the covers on the golf cart.

I agree!
Is this guy looking for a fight?
How does a villager remain professional, what does that mean?

Well, unless he keeps valuables and/or money rolled up in his enclosure, he didn't have any concern, because that's where my hands were. I can assure you, I will not be "Mr. Friendly and Courteous" again to anyone when it starts to pour rain. I dealt with enough a**holes and scum in my 25 year career as a LEO; why in the hell would I think it would be different here? Huh? I do not like to fight, didn't like it in my career, but he was way out of control with his screaming and profanities and maybe a gentle thump would have knocked some sense in him. The New Jersey reference, I was hoping he would be on TOTV and would read this to realize what an a** he was.

I'm reminded of the old days when, if I saw a car in a parking lot with its lights on, I would very likely open the door and turn them off. That's when headlights were fairly predictably controlled by a push knob on the dashboard -- today, who knows! Those were also the days, at least where I grew up, when cars were left unlocked.

Well, it's a marketing slogan. There wasn't a Congressional hearing on it or anything.

In what way is waving at dozens (hundreds?) of total strangers a sign that a person is happy or friendly or anything at all? Why would anybody care one-way-or-another if this total stranger waves back? Is there some sort of quota we're supposed to meet?
By the same token you could say that the cashiers at "Subway" or "Dollar Tree" are really friendly because they say "Welcome to..." whenever you walk in.
It's as impersonal and empty as your 4,000th "friend" on Facebook.
Hard to believe this sort of topic keeps coming up.

Maybe I'll stop buttoning up golf carts in the rain.

What a shame that such a kind gesture would be greeted so ungraciously that it would make a person have to reconsider ever doing it again. I guess times really are changing...

Nice.......

We too are new residents and we enjoy waving to everyone we pass. I guess it's just the joy of being in this place and want to include everyone as a friend. However, not every one feels the same...guess they have been here so long they have lost the joy. But for me, I'll keep waving!

"some people" are beginning to be understood............

To say people have lost their joy is not the case. We have been here 15 years and have many wonderful friends. We say hi and talk to everyone we meet. We love meeting people !! We just met 2 couples tonight at City Fire. They were awesome !!
Trust me, if I don't wave to you that certainly doesn't mean I have lost the joy of living here !! I would never live any where else. When you are riding in a golf cart, it's almost impossible to wave to every cart that passes you. You need to watch the road and the carts around you.
Sometimes you're talking to whoever is in the cart with you and sometimes you are just thinking of things going on in your life.
Just know that most people here are some of the friendliest people you will ever meet ! :thumbup:

Not sure why, in all sincerity. This is not Shangri-La, nor is it a groupthink cult.

It sometimes feels like people's expectations are so unrealistically high when they move here that they're bound to be dashed. Makes he sad.

I don't think it's unfriendly if people in cars don't wave at me.
Nor do I think it's unfriendly if people in golf carts don't wave.
I read an estimate that there are around 60,000 golf carts in The Villages. That's a lot of waving.

Come up to the historic side. We'll wave at you!! My grandkids were very impressed by all of the friendly people they saw during their stay here.

kcrazorbackfan: When I was assigned to Iowa I had an employee who came to my office with his bare head as red as a tomato and visibly shaken complaining that some guy from New York was rude, nasty mean......I laughed and said he's just playing with you that's what they do . So when you call him back act the same way and by the end of the conversation you will be best friends. He did and he told me it worked

As to your situation whoever the guy is one thing he is not and that's insightful. I also don't much care for swearing but some folks just don't have sufficient verbs, adverbs, adjectives in their portfolio their limited what can you say??

I know something of downstate New York/New Jersey and most of those folks would give you the shirt off their backs, some are a bit gruff, very animated, excitable, passionate, speak directly but its a very large metropolitan area.

It was a nice gesture. You can protect my cart from rain anytime I am not around and I might just buy you a brewski for your trouble

Maybe TV needs more mid-westerners....

It does seem a bit invasive of one's personal property to be putting down an enclosure without the owner's permission. I would not like it, although I would understand the gesture as good intent. The New Jersey guy was way out of line IMHO. He should have just said please don't do that. I rarely put my enclosure down if my cart is sitting in the rain. I carry a towel to wipe down the seat before I drive off.

Sing with me. "The Villages . . . Florida's Friendliest Home Town"

Sound familiar? Shape up people!! :wave:

Sage advice as usual.

I think both folks in the interchange got toooo hot toooo fast.

But just because I had been schooled as a child not to touch or bother anyone else's possessions, I wouldn't have put down another carts rainsides.

I think KCRazorback was reacting as a police officer rather than a private individual. I sometimes act annoyingly like the teacher of young children that I used to be.

in todays world with the golf cart thefts...

you just never know....

Mayberry days are over......sad but true....

fowl language is unacceptable, always.....

Like:

cock-a-doodle-doo

Waving is a small town ritual I've noticed. When my wife moved from Iowa to Chicago she waved at everyone walking in Chicago nobody waived back. It's no different here people from big cities don't. Don't take it personal.

I remember the guy that put the finger gesture out the window when someone honked. His sticker said honk if you love Jesus.

Everyone has a bad day now and then.

Once a LEO, always a LEO.