I'm bringing back greeting people in the streets. I have thus far good-morning'd 6 unsuspecting folk of my local community and have achieved a 100% hit rate. I cannot be stopped. I am the friendly neighbourhood....Goodmorning-Man. Goodmorning-Man, Goodmorning-Man. Does whatever a goodmorning can.
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@TheBreadmonkey Spotted this this morning, decided it needed to be here.
@TheBreadmonkey When I was younger I used to wave at people I didn't know to see if they'd wave back. I was surprised by how many people would look behind them to see if I was waving to someone else.
Also, be prepared if some Irish type person greets you with "Top O' the morning to you". So you can reply with the proper response, "And the rest of the day to you".
I grew up in a village where pretty much everyone knew everyone else, and always acknowledged each other. If you went to town #BishopAuckland it was the same, you probably vaguely knew folk but it was standard practice, polite, to acknowledge people in passing.
What a culture shock when my mother moved us to the Quaker town of #DARLINGTON Woe betide you if you even caught the gaze of a stranger there (1960s and 1970s).
I didn’t know what had hit me.
I moved around with work. Time in Yorkshire made me see Darlo’ differently. Returning from Yorkshire made Darlington folk seem… well… ‘darling’.
And don’t get me started on my time in #Dundee
It’s a funny old world… Very, very glad to be back within my own culture in the north-east.
@TheBreadmonkey Here in the Deep South US, you’re weird if you *don’t* greet someone. We even wave to each other when we pass in our cars.
@TheBreadmonkey @trending_bot everyone does it here in Luxembourg, it never went away
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A firm 'farmer's nod' from this Canadian.
(Canadian's will get this one 😂 )
@TheBreadmonkey we have a regional tradition here in Charlottesville of thanking bus drivers. It’s lovely.
@TheBreadmonkey Define "hit" rate. Sounds dangerous.
@TheBreadmonkey this is actually one of the things that I love about the part of Los Angeles where I am. I come from small town stock, so footpath “Hello’s” are as normal as breathing to me and it’s nice to have them reciprocated here. I’ve even had several conversations with people who stop to chat when I’m out the front working in the garden.
@TheBreadmonkey fairly normal here (Highlands of Scotland), except on the main road through town (too busy). Hi.
And you can tell the tourists, they either blank you, or say a hurried Oh hello.
@TheBreadmonkey im doing what I can to bring back the farmer wave. You make eye contact and it’s just one or two fingers raised from the top of the wheel with a slight nod. Most people at least try to return it.
@TheBreadmonkey This is common where I live in SE PA and I was unprepared when I first moved here 😂
@TheBreadmonkey not greeting a passing stranger would be considered very odd around here (rural Scotland)