This is a place to tell your stories about when Iowans were nice to you or what you like about Iowa.
Go to either the IOWA NICE PEOPLE page or IOWA NICE PLACES page and add your comments.
Butterfly Garden on the Neal Smith Trail
Iowans can tell stories about other Iowans. Californians and New Yorkers and South Dakotans can tell stories about Iowans they’ve met. Iowans live and travel just about everywhere, you know, so I’m sure there are stories from all over.
It’s a corny idea, but that’s one nice thing about some of us.
Also, please share your favorite other links to information about Iowa that you think people would enjoy. If there are enough of them, we’ll look into adding a page to list all those links.
This is your blog, for the stories you want to share. Be sure to tell your friends and family and ask them to share their stories, too. Thanks!
P.S. Please use your real name when you add comments. That’s just common courtesy.
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Oh, do I get to be the very first person to blog? How fun. Okay, I am a native Iowan and proud of it. In my 20’s I had a great opportunity to travel. In every major city I traveled I would try to pick up the newspaper and/or listen to the evening news. It did not take long to recognize a pattern; murder, robbery, illegal drug use, arson were always a common theme no matter the city. I would return to my home in Iowa to find the lead story more often than not, is the weather. It’s windy, raining, not raining enough, icy, snowing and or blowing — but more times than not it’s the weather. I love living in a state that the worst thing that happened all day, was something none of us had any control of – the weather.
A couple years ago I was driving on First Ave. in Cedar Rapids and had to stop at a Stop light and was 4 or 5 cars back from the intersection. When the light turned green several cars went though the intersection when the car ahead of me with 2 young men, in there late teens or early 20’s, stopped in the street ahead of me. Then I noticed the older lady that had crossed the street in front of us during the red light was having trouble stepping up on to the curb to get on the side walk. One young man in the car in front of me got out of his car and went to helped the older lady get up the curb and onto the side walk, then he got back into his car and continued on there way.
There was plenty of room for cars to get past her safely but they stopped and helped. I often wonder if I would have stopped and helped?
Who said young people are not courteous in Iowa.
Hey, this IS nice! I am an Iowa native living in LaLa land (Los Angeles). Just being on this site brings back the calm feeling of being in Iowa. Can you post photos of Iowa on this site?
We don’t have a way for you to post photos here at this point, but you can include a link to another place where you have your photos. I have some on http://sports.webshots.com/album/560070309jzQprf
I’ll see if there’s another way to do it. Thanks!
It’s funny…Ilive in Minnesota and people always talk about “Minnessota Nice” …actually it is an insult…aterm coined by people from out of state refering to the obligatory nice…not genuine at all