Funeral Processions

I live in a rural area. We sometimes refer to it as Hooterville because you can get run off Main Street by an Amadas (HUGE peanut picker).

We pull off the road for funeral processions.  Our local police stop traffic and stand at attention as the hearse passes and also leads the way.   It is a way of life here.  I live on a highway that has a cemetery above me and one below me so we get processions coming by the house quite often.  No matter what we are doing, we stop while the entire procession is going by. It is just respect.

Is it that way where you live? 

It was always that way here growing up, but I think as the world changes, the newer generations have not learned that RESPECT.  For the most part, people still stop on the side of the road for funeral processions.  I think it's the least we can do in RESPECT for the deceased and their families.

I am in a small city. here the police escorts the procession. I'ts ticketville for you if you get caught not stopping. Also Nelson Funeral home puts out signs at the person's home on both sides of their drive ways if your caught over 15 MPH its a ticket

I live in a relatively small town (pop 22,000) and MOST people are decent enough to stop for a funeral procession.  Seems like some people just have no respect though.  The way I was brought up and taught when I learned to drive was that you pull over for funerals and all emergency vehicle.  I always wonder what people are thinking when they don't pull over.  What if it was their loved one or what if it was them in need of that emergency vehicle.  It's just plain respect and common sense if you ask me.

Off my pedestal now...
Sandi

Sandi

I remember so well an ambulance ride with my granddaddy in the back, and EMT straddled the stretcher,  hanging on for dear life while doing CPR on him.  The ambulance WAS going as fast as it would go (I could not see the speedometer).  We got behind a group of U-Haul trucks that would not move over no matter how loud the sirens were and how many times the driver tried to pass.  Every second and every breath was thought to be my granddaddy's last. 

Finally the ambulance driver did the unthinkable and moved into the on-coming lane and went around the trucks anyway.  Gratefully the  traffic had moved off the road to let us come through.

Yes, the driver could have caused an accident but he made a split second decision.  He saw cars were moving over and took the opportunity. 

To add insult to injury we were in an ambulance that had lost radio contact.  My granddaddy's life was in the hands of an experienced EMT that was doing CPR on him and a driver faced with making a judgement call that was putting others in danger.  

Common sense?  Respect?  Sometimes I think it has flown out the window and then again I look back and see it around every bend.

I live in a rural area to .We are a small town and the peanut pickers go right down the main street. Yes we stop for funeral processions.I call our town the town time forgot because the stores have not changed much in the 30+ years we have lived here and even further back as long as i can remember life seems to pass us by. We still have a drug store that has a soda fountain in it.

It is like Blakely.  You can actually walk down the street and people SPEAK to you.  I love that drug store.  You can find things there that you can't any place else. 

I have no problem with people being respectful and pulling off the road to show that.  Where I live I can see a causeway that crosses Guntersville Lake.  It is rated the busiest stretch of road in the county with an average of over 31,000 cars per day crossing it.  When a funeral procession crosses it many people stop right in the middle of the road.  What worries me is that some of those 31,000 cars are not from here and I fear a tragidy happening to someone who is just being respectful.

As a former GEORGIA Gal I too am use to these exact ways of life, especailly those darn P-Nut Pickers and what about the Cotton Trucks!!!!!  Worth County Georgia had plenty of both!  As for here in Jemison Bama, we pull stop in the middle of the road and allow those funeral processions to pass, as a sign of respect..I also like to turn off the radio and often say a prayer as they pass by.  Now as for farming, there are a ton of tractors around here so we end up going about 5 MPH allot!