What’s the Small Town Survey all about, anyway?

Well, it’s really not about anything actually. Other than, just a chance for you to have your thoughts heard and to see what your neighbors think about whatever happens to be the question of the week.

It all began a few weeks ago, when I was walking into town and I approached a woman on the sidewalk, heading in the other direction. As we neared, our eyes met, we smiled and we both said “hello” as we passed. A few minutes later I approached another woman heading in the other direction. But this time as we neared, I noticed she was not looking at me. In fact it almost seemed that she was making sure to look at anything but me. We passed and never said hello or anything.

So, no big deal – sometimes we pass people and we say hello, sometimes we don’t. But what got me curious about this, was realizing that sometimes I will say “HELLO!” even when someone’s not looking, and other times I won’t.

And so I got wondering what all of you think about this type of situation. That’s where this whole Small Town Survey idea came from. And after that I thought it would be fun to put up a new question each week.

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