> Then don't come to the rural south.
don't worry... wasn't planning on it ;)

...please take that as the joke it is...

The best wave I ever got was the first wave I ever got.  It was the first
time I ever drove a vanagon, it was a friends van and we'd just traded
drivers at the entrance to Jousha Tree NP.  One minute into the park a van
came towards me and the driver raised both hands slightly above the
certianing wheel  and gve me a double wave... fourtuantly it was on a rare
very straight stretch of road.   That one drive is what sold me on vanagons
and 6 weeks later I owned my one and only :)

Every (male) driver will wave at
> you, no matter what you are driving or what they are driving, and they
> expect a wave back. I'm talking about hundreds or thousands of wave a
> day--just two fingers lifted off the wheels, at least.
>
> Doesn't happen on busy highways or in towns, but out on the two-lanes
> it's universal. They would wave at you as they died in a firey crash
> while going over a cliff if that's what it took to get their wave in.
>
> Jim