Newbie Member from Massachusetts

[Nichol Neto]

In my defense I spent most of my "impressionable" years growing up in Tucson, AZ. So I have a "South Western" kind of attitude in which I not only look strangers in the eye but I also say "good morning sir" & "good morning ma'am" in passing. I tell little girls just how adorable they are; I hold the door for my elders, & always let them go ahead of me (even when they take their time); & I stop to let cars out in traffic, allow people the right of way in crosswalks, & politely wave when everyone else beeps at me in appreciation ;0)

To say the least some of my ways are a bone of contention for most of my Mass friends that explain to me (over, & over, & over) that my "friendliness" gives off the wrong impression ;0). But I am who I am (and had the black widow spiders, rattle snakes, and large flying cockroaches - that we used to catch and fly on strings in our back yard to prove it) and although I do make apologies for it....I'm continuing through the course of life down the road I carved our