>  At one of these
 > driving shows if you broke a line or whatever you would
 > have offers from
 > complete strangers to borrow one of their spares.  People
 > actually congratulate
 > each other for doing well (and actually mean it too).
    Isn't that interesting -- Buddy and I found the people to be VERY nice 
and helpful.  Most were our age but there were a few younger ...... it was 
like a little family reunion (and I didn't know anyone there but most of the 
rest had been to this charity show for several years now as it is an annual 
thing).  I'm talking about the ones in the driving classes now -- I'm sure 
that there were lots of nice people there but we only were really around the 
driving ones.
    After the classes we were like in a little group - laughing, 
congratulating, helping each other with what might have gone wrong ...... and 
there was the judge chiming in with what what make this better etc.  OH yea 
-- the judge had the announcer say over the PA system "THANK YOU and this was 
a VERY nice Class"!!
    I was truly amazed at the conradary (sp) ..... it was nice and refreshing 
to say for sure!!!
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