It's quite the opposite here in the hills. On our highway, there may be as many as 50 vehicles a day...but if you're stuck, every one of them will stop and offer assistance.
I know, Ron....That's exactly why I want to move back to the true south so badly!! I was raised in that environment and I that's one thing I really miss - true hospitality and looking out for one another. :(-->
She said she had been there on the side of the road for over an hour and I was only the 3rd person to stop and ask if she was okay or needed help. WTF????
I hear ya, even though we don't have anywhere near the traffic you do. :(-->
Up here in the People's Republic of Duluth one gets much the same treatment --- despite all the socially-conscious, politically-correct, work-for-justice advocates that we have living here.
Put a real life need in front of their face (instead of a cause), and they will ignore you as quickly as the next person. Seems like it is just as important to get home quickly (these days). -->
However -- in *greater minnesota* (ie - rural) -- folks treat people like folks, and not like some bug that crawled out from under a rock.
Belle, it is so frustrating isn't it? People just don't seem to care about others anymore.
When I was about 8 months pregnant with Aaron, I got stuck on the highway on my way to a TWI class, in JANUARY. NOT ONE PERSON stopped to see if I needed help.
Strange country we live in....I wonder how many of these people will line up on Sunday to hear the "Love your neighbor as yourself' sermon...
...I never did like what happens to people when they become part of a herd, it seems to slowly erode away common goodness and important parts of their humanity.
I have to brace every summer weekend for the invasion of the tourists myself. They are professionals at leaving their manners (if indeed they have any at all)at home.
I only had 30 minutes to spend with Holly before I had to go to work, but on the way home, on the loopty-loo street in my neighborhood on the way to my house, we passed a little motorized scooter chair with a fellow in it who appeared perplexed somehow.
Freakin' Florida heat will kill you if you give it half a chance, especially if you're 84 with a dead battery on your zoom mobile.
He is a vet...Okinowa and the Filipines...had a hat and an American flag on his buggy. His name is Jim Cleese and Holly and I got to help him.
The neat thing was we took him two doors down to another neighbor who goes to the same church as we do (sometimes)...he had what I didn't and Jim needed...a plug with an outlet. Time enuf to recharge and re-energize the oldster in the shade.
A thoroughly worthwhile digression from "the plan" of the day.
Holly thought we done good and that's good enuf for me.
Here's to Jackie DeShannon and that dumb butt song she used to sing...lol...not so dumb after all. :)-->
I'm the master of back roads, Ham. But this one can't be avoided unless you take another road that's even more crammed full of cars. I'm just floored at the total apathy of so many people. That would NEVER happen in Mississippi.
When I went to see my brother in NJ, we took the train into New York City. It was packed, but I was suprised how smoothly things really ran. People were actually kind of friendly. I don't know what it is like at night though..
But I don't think you've really lived, until you experience a cab ride through NY during rush hour..
I last time that I was "on the side of the road", about as year ago. The snow-plows had cleared off the roads, but left a lot of sand and slush on the sides. I was teaching one of our renters to drive. I had her pulling over to perform a U-turn, when she went onto some gravel and she locked-up the brakes. we slid right off and into the ditch, the rear-end of my station-wagon was up in the air.
But the next three cars that drove by, ALL stopped and offered assistance. Within 2 or 3 minutes, one guy had a tow-strap and another guy had yanked my car out of the ditch. And we were back on our way again. In Ct, they seem to be fairly helpfull.
Same here in Tennessee....I have never been passed by on the road when I was stranded....even when I told folks that stopped.....that help was on the way....they offered to go get food and drinks for the children untill our help arrived.
Most folks are very courtious about letting people inti traffic....
When I lived in Wichita Kansas, now THAT was an entirely different story....I would be in tears most nights after the rush hour commute....people were blocked on the hiway and beaten for inadvertantly cutting someone off, I knew someone who was beaten for utilization of the middle finger at soemone who cut him off ....usually about once a month you would read about a road rage incident involving a gun....
I though ...DAMN, I never knew that driving was considered a *contact* sport....
Thanks for the reminder of why I love my adopted state :-)
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yeah--I know what you mean...its the adult sized kid brats.
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It's quite the opposite here in the hills. On our highway, there may be as many as 50 vehicles a day...but if you're stuck, every one of them will stop and offer assistance.
It's what we live for.
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I know, Ron....That's exactly why I want to move back to the true south so badly!! I was raised in that environment and I that's one thing I really miss - true hospitality and looking out for one another.
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I hear ya, even though we don't have anywhere near the traffic you do.
:(-->
Up here in the People's Republic of Duluth one gets much the same treatment --- despite all the socially-conscious, politically-correct, work-for-justice advocates that we have living here.
Put a real life need in front of their face (instead of a cause), and they will ignore you as quickly as the next person. Seems like it is just as important to get home quickly (these days).
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However -- in *greater minnesota* (ie - rural) -- folks treat people like folks, and not like some bug that crawled out from under a rock.
Must be the *big city* influence, eh?
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Belle, Just remember, its almost Friday!
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Belle, it is so frustrating isn't it? People just don't seem to care about others anymore.
When I was about 8 months pregnant with Aaron, I got stuck on the highway on my way to a TWI class, in JANUARY. NOT ONE PERSON stopped to see if I needed help.
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Strange country we live in....I wonder how many of these people will line up on Sunday to hear the "Love your neighbor as yourself' sermon...
...I never did like what happens to people when they become part of a herd, it seems to slowly erode away common goodness and important parts of their humanity.
I have to brace every summer weekend for the invasion of the tourists myself. They are professionals at leaving their manners (if indeed they have any at all)at home.
Glad you stopped though Belle-
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I only had 30 minutes to spend with Holly before I had to go to work, but on the way home, on the loopty-loo street in my neighborhood on the way to my house, we passed a little motorized scooter chair with a fellow in it who appeared perplexed somehow.
Freakin' Florida heat will kill you if you give it half a chance, especially if you're 84 with a dead battery on your zoom mobile.
He is a vet...Okinowa and the Filipines...had a hat and an American flag on his buggy. His name is Jim Cleese and Holly and I got to help him.
The neat thing was we took him two doors down to another neighbor who goes to the same church as we do (sometimes)...he had what I didn't and Jim needed...a plug with an outlet. Time enuf to recharge and re-energize the oldster in the shade.
A thoroughly worthwhile digression from "the plan" of the day.
Holly thought we done good and that's good enuf for me.
Here's to Jackie DeShannon and that dumb butt song she used to sing...lol...not so dumb after all.
:)-->
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What's the name of that song?
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MATILDA
Put a Little Love in Your Heart
Think of your fellow man
Lend him a helping hand
Put a little love in your heart
You see it's getting late
oh please don't hesitate
Put a little love in your heart
And the world will be a better place
yes, the world will be a better place
For you, for me
You just wait and see
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It was an innocuous song of the 60s whose simple lyrics are still simple, but good
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At least one person told me I'm "nuts" for it, but when I go anywhere, I try to avoid the big roads..
"Whadya going THAT way for, anymore? NOBODY goes that way.."
"that's the whole point.."
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Matilda, I LOVE that song!!
I'm the master of back roads, Ham. But this one can't be avoided unless you take another road that's even more crammed full of cars. I'm just floored at the total apathy of so many people. That would NEVER happen in Mississippi.
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Yep. Some things can't be avoided, I guess..
When I went to see my brother in NJ, we took the train into New York City. It was packed, but I was suprised how smoothly things really ran. People were actually kind of friendly. I don't know what it is like at night though..
But I don't think you've really lived, until you experience a cab ride through NY during rush hour..
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Kit Sober
Thanks for bringing this up.
I noticed on the way home, when I drove passed a guy walking home that I used to stop and help more (we have poor bus system out here in the boonies).
I wasn't so afraid to stop.
(Once i stopped to help a lone woman that looked stranded and she was looking for a pickup of a different sort.)
Overall it appears to me that we will be judged when we meet the Lord for the good we do (and not our judgment of others).
Thanks,
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I last time that I was "on the side of the road", about as year ago. The snow-plows had cleared off the roads, but left a lot of sand and slush on the sides. I was teaching one of our renters to drive. I had her pulling over to perform a U-turn, when she went onto some gravel and she locked-up the brakes. we slid right off and into the ditch, the rear-end of my station-wagon was up in the air.
But the next three cars that drove by, ALL stopped and offered assistance. Within 2 or 3 minutes, one guy had a tow-strap and another guy had yanked my car out of the ditch. And we were back on our way again. In Ct, they seem to be fairly helpfull.
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Same here in Tennessee....I have never been passed by on the road when I was stranded....even when I told folks that stopped.....that help was on the way....they offered to go get food and drinks for the children untill our help arrived.
Most folks are very courtious about letting people inti traffic....
When I lived in Wichita Kansas, now THAT was an entirely different story....I would be in tears most nights after the rush hour commute....people were blocked on the hiway and beaten for inadvertantly cutting someone off, I knew someone who was beaten for utilization of the middle finger at soemone who cut him off ....usually about once a month you would read about a road rage incident involving a gun....
I though ...DAMN, I never knew that driving was considered a *contact* sport....
Thanks for the reminder of why I love my adopted state :-)
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