• CassowaryTom@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Yeah but your examples are members of the same community. What is weird and endearing is that people who have never been on a boat will wave at people just because they are on a boat. Conversely, people on a boat will eave at people on land. Its as if a transport vehicle was a ride. A jet ski or something.

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      1 year ago

      People on land will wave because they’ve been waved at.

      People on a boat will wave at people just because they’re on a boat.

      Simple as.

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        1 year ago

        Okay, buy why do people on land wave at people on a boat? Is it a throwback from when people might travel to new and exotic lands possibly never to see their families again? Peopkr also wave at people on carnival rides. Is that the same impulse? Whats up with that?

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          It is because waving is such an innocent gesture that it feels like letting a puppy drown if you don’t wave back.