"I Just Wanted To Say Hi!"

We were driving down the road yesterday and had a totally weird experience.

As we were sitting at a red light- on a major road in town- we see this woman get out of the car stopped behind us and start running toward our car. She starts waving her arms and smiling this somewhat-crazy-personish smile as she approaches my side of the car. Husband unrolls my window (BTW, thanks, Honey, for opening the car up to a wild looking random stranger running up to our car at the stop light for no apparent reason!) and she says "Hi! I'm from Alaska and I saw your licence plates and I just wanted to say Hi!". And then she runs back to her car.

Yes, we have licence plates from Alaska, and yes it does tend to make people stop to chat with us... ask what part we are from, what we thought of it, how we like it here ("Is it hot enough for you here?"- always followed by a little chuckle)... your typical out-of-towner type of chat. This happens lots of times in "box store" parking lots, occasionally in a restaurant parking lot, sometimes even at the gas station. Never however, had we ever had someone stop and run to us on the middle of the road. We figured that she must have been really homesick!