Non-Verbal Communication......

It comes in many forms and hand gestures....

Today's Add the 4 Words Action  had us holding signs in various traffic sites around town.  Today, Omi and I went to the Maple Grove overpass over I84 from 3:30-5:30 (by the time we left).  We stood on the overpass facing the West Bound traffic (the going home traffic), held signs that said Add the Words Idaho and covered our mouths.

The response was very interesting. These are the responses we got:

1) Honking for support
2) Waving and honking for support
3) Shooting the finger with one hand by the driver.
4) The driver using BOTH hands to shoot the finger at us (shouldn't one of those hands be on the steering wheel)?
5)  The hand fist pump out the window and honking with support
6)  The thumbs down..obviously no a fan
7) The motion you would give a fly as in "Shew fly dont bother me"
8)  The drive and the passenger each shooting the finger.
9)  Omi's favorite (The three bird salute)  2 from the passenger and one from the driver as he honked.

Then there were there "Woooohoooooooo"s (that is kinda verbal in a cave man sort of way).


We even had a Police officer stop at the top of the overpass with flashing lights, get out of the car and check on what we were doing.  She was very friendly and let us carry on.

We had semi drivers honk in support.  We had Cattle Haulers honk in support.  We had FedEx drivers honk in support.  We had mom's in mini vans, men in sports cars, men in red-neck(ish) trucks.

Then we had those exact same things with the opposite reaction.

It was a very interesting day on the overpass.

I have to say that between the supporters and non-spporters, the supporters won out.  The non-supporters shooting fingers at us just made us laugh.  (They are allowed their freedom of speech just as we are.)  But MOST of all were the ones who just drove by with NOTHING to say.  Those are the ones we need to reach.  We need to reach the ones who don't think this issue affects them.

I'm glad Omi and I went.  It was a fun event and I get to meet more fun people.  Another great day standing up for what I believe!

Add the Words Idaho!