Wave on Wave

When I worked on the ropes course at OSU, I had a friend named Josh. He was from Washington State and always had some interesting insight into things he was seeing in Oklahoma. One particular day as we were sitting around on our lunch break, he explained to us the finer points of waving at someone on a country road in Oklahoma.

The appropriate way to wave at a person that you pass on the road is this: First, your left arm is ALWAYS resting on the door beside (elbow hanging out the open window) you so you will always wave with your right hand which of course is resting atop the steering wheel. Second, you don’t wave with your whole hand because you need to maintain control of the vehicle HOWEVER you certainly don’t want to wave with only one finger because it could be mistaken as being the “wrong” finger so, you raise your index and middle fingers in tandem as a “howdy partener” type of greeting, while leaving the thumb and other two fingers to control the vehicle. Failure to acknowledge the people you pass on such roads will immediately identify you as “stuck up city folk”.

Now you know.