What do you picture doing when you retire?
Lounging amongst big umbrellas on sunny beaches, taking the grandkids to the zoo, cropping a serious vegetable garden, or turning your wood carving hobby into a lucrative craft fair business?
Well, whatever you choose, can I just recommend that you also make time to just sit on your porch, sip some lemonade, and look up to smile and wave at people when they walk by?
Because other than cutting the little wedge of your neighbor’s lawn, lending out your snowblower, or collecting someone’s mail while they’re away, I tell you — nothing says friendly neighbor more than a couple old folks sitting on their rockers and just flashing those gums and waving those palms when you walk on by.
AWESOME!
22 Comments
January 20, 2009 at 1:10 am
I think I’m going to need a winter porch in the south.
January 20, 2009 at 4:33 am
There was an old guy sitting n a porch here…waving at people to come on in…. he had a shotgun laying on his lap……to take care of hippies and unwanted kin
January 20, 2009 at 5:46 am
ahhh this doesn’t happen in the UK, well not where I am from anyway :( my neighbours just stare out of their window instead, quite creepy I think!
January 20, 2009 at 10:05 am
LOVE this! I’m in Michigan, north of Detroit, yes even Detroiters sit on the porch, are friendly and wave! well…ok…most of us anyways:)
January 20, 2009 at 5:15 pm
You don’t have to be old to sit out on your front porch and enjoy the people walking by. You can meet some facinating people.
January 20, 2009 at 8:51 pm
When I moved to a new city, I stayed with my sister for a few weeks. She had porch-sitting neighbors, but they were all young, loud, and boozy.
January 21, 2009 at 4:43 pm
i used to have a neighbour that would sit on her front porch with a notebook. It was many months after we moved in before i learned she would make notes on everyone’s comings and goings! She even knew what day i went for groceries and how many bags i brought in from the car…or how many times i parked on the street in front of her sidewalk. Of course, after our car was stolen i was pretty happy she had that notebook with all the license plate #s of cars she didn’t recognize and “shady characters” walking around!
April 24, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Women should be jailed for invasion of privacy… and being a lunatic… security it may be, but these people ruin the neighbourhood by making it uncomfortable for people who don’t like being WATCHED.
January 22, 2009 at 7:43 am
I’ve found that the more rural, the more wavers.
January 29, 2009 at 9:30 am
I seen that a lot also. Older people are more friendly usually.
March 21, 2009 at 8:54 pm
i desperately want a big wooden porch like that (not those colors though. id much prefer the natural wood look) and a nice creaky rocking chair. i always have. i love people watching
May 5, 2009 at 8:43 am
Lol once again awesome. Old guy down the road from house. Everday all day sitting on the porch watching the birds eat, listening to the poilce scanner. Always smiled and waved when we walked by. Me and my friends called him Crazy-ol-whats-his-name.
June 30, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Cool awesome site!
In holland we dont have porches unforunately.. but there is just one guy in the street that stands the whole day (!) on the sidewalk and waves…. AWESOME
July 27, 2009 at 4:18 pm
my neighbours do that all the time. they sit out front with fresh lemonade and the paper and wave to me as i come and go.
September 12, 2009 at 7:14 am
There is an old man up my road like that, except he doesn’t have a porch. He has a rocking chair just in front of the front window. He is always either outside feeding birds, or inside sitting on his rocking chair. I love that guy :)
November 17, 2009 at 7:53 pm
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February 15, 2010 at 9:32 pm
i had a substitute teacher the other day, and he was telling us about how awesome this is. he came from a city where waving meant “get down!” so when he moved out to the boondocks, and he first saw this, he dove into the old folks’ bushes. : ) hehe.
February 16, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Everyone waves in South Ontario.
I love it.
April 24, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Are you kidding me!
These nosy sons of bitches have nothing else better to do with their time but snoop? My neighbours across the street sit out in their garage all day everyday, when the family comes to visit it’s a goddamn communal in the garage. I should add that there house faces lake ontario and their yard on the NON-street side is very nice, complete with a deck. I can’t wait til these old fu*ks die so our neighbourhood can come out of their houses without being watched….. there should be a law against this, it’s passive aggressive harassment. Man I hope they die soon…….
July 5, 2010 at 2:17 am
YOU could die first and problem would be solved! we all want to live… sorry! :)
July 2, 2010 at 1:40 pm
On the street I live on there’s an old guy that has no legs, he sits outside on his riding scooter and waves at everyone that walks or drive by, he has no teeth and drinks beer, I toot my horn everytime I see him!! He puts a smile on my face everyday!!