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From:Jim Felder
Date:Sat, 2 May 2015 01:11:09 +0000

Right on bro

Jim

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:10 PM Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not a fan of the "beep beep" greeting (having brought up to consider
> the horn a warning device), but I make it a habit to give other
> Vanagonauts a wave -- and usually receive a waveback in reply.
>
> However, tf the other person is driving a bay window or splittie I wait
> for them to initiate the greet. One must respect those who precede us.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 05/01/2015 01:08 PM, Kenneth O'Connor wrote:
> > In Sarasota, nearly all air-cooled v-dubs acknowledge each other.
> > Most with the peace sign, some with just a wave. Lately, us
> > Vanagonauts are getting the same gestures. i always return with a
> > beep-beep and a peace sign.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On May 1, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> There is a very attractive young lady in our community who drives
> >> an old beetle painted up in the very best 60s flower child patina.
> >> My 8 year old grandson is in love with her and her car. Every time
> >> she and I pass on the street and I am in my Westy I get the peace
> >> sign from her.
> >>
> >> Today I pulled up behind her at a stop light and out her window
> >> came her peace sign and mine in return. I looked around to see the
> >> bemused and baffled drivers around the busy intersection who must
> >> have wondered what decade they had been sucked into.
> >>
> >> Jim
>

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