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.