Do you bother to say Hello???

usually, when i see someone i know in the streets, they are the first one to greet me. ^__^;; i'm always oblivious to everyone i come across with and i don't take notice of everyone unless i am wearing a dark sunglasses which makes me free to observe anyone. LOL but even if i'm the first one to notice a person i know, i don't usually take the first move to greet him or her. it's always the other way around. just like the other weekend, me and my bestfriend were going home, she nudged me and pointed at someone who were calling our attention. ^__^;;

I live in country NSW and it's common if you make eye contact with someone to say g'day or hello or just smile. Same thing if you are driving on the roads out of the towns you wave to other drivers. Most people do this, some don't but it's human nature I guess for some to go against the flow. I'm a friendly, outgoing person by nature so it's easy for me to say Hi to everyone. I think it's rude or ignorant not to respond to a friendly gesture...what do you think?

In here, every day when i go out and meet other people who i don't even know them, i say "hallo/good morning/good evening". It is normal, if we say greetings when we see each other on the road, when we walk. Yeah, sometimes even if we say greetings to them, they don't say reply to us. But i don't bothering about that :)

i always say hello to people, but it looks like sometiems they ingore me.

It's always polite to say hi to someone you don't personally know who came from the same country like you. In this case, i will end up striking a conversation with him/her, where he/she came from and how she ended up in the present place. We might also be talking in our own country's dialect and it will make us more nostalgic of the poeple in our own country.

Living here in the middle of nowhere in Ohio I meet exceedingly few Brits! But yes without a shadow of a doubt if I happen upon one I definitely strike up a conversation. Sad as it may sound and I am not homesick at all it is as if on meeting a fellow countryman you have re-found a piece of home.