Shocked by a positive attitude

There's the phenomenon in Sidney I'm going to call 'extreme friendliness,' and I'm still working to get used to it.

As soon as I arrived in town, strangers were smiling, waving and asking me about myself. It made me slightly uncomfortable.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think friendliness is a bad thing at all. I'm just not used to it, not on this extreme level, anyway. People were friendly in my hometown of Vincennes, Indiana, but I've gotten used to Denver where drivers yell expletives we can't print in the paper at pedestrians for the terrible mistake of walking in the cross walk.

I'm sure thi...