[Malichi]

It's a Southern thing CG. Natalee was a gracious Southern belle. What I've found in my trips north of the Mason-Dixon line is people who think one is crazy for smiling and saying hello to a fellow shopper in the grocery store or in my case a fellow rafter on the James river. What I had to explain was that I understood in the North that if one smiled and said hello to a passing stranger that one was considered to be up to something but in the South the case was exactly the opposite. If one wasn't cordial to others then he or she would be considered to be up to something.
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[cajungirl]

You got it. When we moved to the east coast, I was just talking to all kinds of strangers untill I found out nobody did that up there.

I am struck by how kids are not discernig about strangers. They sort of assume everyone is good. And they ignore warning signs. Until they learn them.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

It is a Southern thing. I am a 51 year old Grandma-to-be and I still "Yes M'am" and "Yes Sir".