To wave or not? The results are in....

[Glas Robin]

It’s a perennial question - should you wave to other MoHoers or not?

Well, we’ve passed 49 mohos in 7 days in the Highlands and Islands - around half of them in the last 24 hours between Skye, Glen Shiel and through the Great Glen. The rest of the time was very quiet.

We waved at all of them (well, I did; the co-pilot chose not to participate in this ground-breaking statistical study). Waving was confined to single carriage way roads - this may have been a methodological a flaw in the study as we didn’t encounter any dual-carriageways all week...

And... 38 of the 49 waved back. That’s a whopping 77.6%.

Of observational interest, but not statistically significant:

• Female co-pilots are the most like to engage in a maniacal jazz-hands wave along with a big smile
• Non-wavers are predominantly in hired vans.
• 100% of Belgian vans wave (2 out of 2)
• 1 PVC driver was confused or over-enthusiastic and waved first to us in our MoHo. We waved back and included him gratefully in the study.

So there you have it; it’s official - just 22.4% of MoHoers are miserable gits.

 

[AXO66]

How many Tesco and other delivery vans waved back?

 

[Glas Robin]

Of course, in the interests of science, these results need verifying with other studies. We would be particularly interested to know if our results are replicated in other countries.

Get waving folks, and let us know!

 

[Glas Robin]

How many Tesco and other delivery vans waved back?

We’ve got good at spotting them in advance.

I did wave at a guy in a red Harris Rentals van, who I’m fairly sure was giving me the finger though!

 

[AXO66]

We‘ve just stopped suddenly scratchIng our heads when we spot a motorhome delivery van

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[klaatu]

I’ve given up waving in France now that we have a PVC. Got a lot more waves when we had an A class.

Just the other day, the co-pilot said “you got a wave just then”. “Oh, did I?” I replied, “I was too busy trying to work out what the artic turning in the middle of the road was intending to do”.

 

[Just smiffy]

Everyone waves in Europe then everyone ignores each other on the Aires....

 

[klaatu]

Everyone waves in Europe then everyone ignores each other on the Aires....

That’s the complete opposite of my experience

 

[Lusky]

Everyone waves in Europe then everyone ignores each other on the Aires....

Often happens in the UK in my experience
‘Does my head in !’

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

On the down & back from Hawick we had loads of waves, we waved too.
Some were so obviously happy it was infectious....loved it.

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[Snoopy]

One of the grandkids sat up front with granddad, now she all legal to do so..poor granny , got back seat, but was comfy..Iggle, that's her Nick name was soooo excited to wave at any MH, sadly only a few returned her over keen waves ...so Iggle gave up and said grandad I will just wave at everyone..cars gave a great response.!!,

 

[Taran_Las]

I love it when other folks don't wave.

It makes it so easy to not wave back ​

 

[Shrimp]

Everyone waves in Europe then everyone ignores each other on the Aires....

Definitely agree with that one!
We have had more interaction with other nationalities than with the English on Aires in France, in spite of greeting and waving etc.

 

[Coolcats]

Of course, in the interests of science, these results need verifying with other studies. We would be particularly interested to know if our results are replicated in other countries.

Get waving folks, and let us know!

Agreed and of course an Independent peer study is needed and that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of waving is required

 

[RobbyMClark]

I love it when other folks don't wave.

It makes it so easy to not wave back ​

Get one of these then

£8.99 AMAZON, other shapes are available.

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[Scotch mist]

In France some were waving across 3 lane motorways , we often play a game like little kids
, we guess who is going to wave back before we Even wave , becomes a competition
often surprising who does or doesn’t wave back

 

[ctc]

If the waver is in uniform do you just wave back?

 

[Glas Robin]

In France some were waving across 3 lane motorways , we often play a game like little kids
, we guess who is going to wave back before we Even wave , becomes a competition
often surprising who does or doesn’t wave back

We need data!

A parallel study on spontaneous wavers would advance the science no end... perhaps we’ll get an IgNobel prize from the Annals of Improbable Research for our efforts? <Broken link removed>

 

[Paul Wilkins]

Proud to say I’m a ‘miserable git’. I don’t wave at anyone

 

[Gary217]

It’s a perennial question - should you wave to other MoHoers or not?

Of observational interest, but not statistically significant:

• Female co-pilots are the most like to engage in a maniacal jazz-hands wave along with a big smile

Those are the ones that make us laugh most ...probably for the wrong reasons. Whenever the passenger and driver wave in unison the wife mutters "Harold and Hilda again.." (as in the sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles). You prob guessed, we're mainly in the 22.4% and quite happy being there.

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[AnnB]

I've noticed that waves, like accents have regional variations. I thought I'd just perfected the Mull wave and was most disappointed the next year when it seemed to have gone out of fashion.

 

[Suegal]

What about the ones who would have waved back but were in a little world of their own and shouted sorry when they realised a second too late they had missed a wave?

 

[allsong]

Did you find a difference between responses from PVC, Coach built and A class? I've found, but not proved statistically, the folk seem to wave only to others with the same type of Moho. Will do a statistical study in the next two weeks while we're away in ours.

 

[allsong]

What about the ones who would have waved back but were in a little world of their own and shouted sorry when they realised a second too late they had missed a wave?

I can be a bit like that. Concentrating on the driving.

 

[Kirsten]

At the risk of being ‘ cancelled’ for being manufacturist I have noticed people in VW Campervans don’t wave back .....( and as an aside why are horse boxes ALWAYS driven by women?}

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[allsong]

Are you a proactive waver, wave first, or reactive waver, see if the other van waves first then wave back.

 

[Glas Robin]

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Did you find a difference between responses from PVC, Coach built and A class? I've found, but not proved statistically, the folk seem to wave only to others with the same type of Moho. Will do a statistical study in the next two weeks while we're away in ours.

It’s a microcosm of the British class system - we only wave at coach built!

 

[joka250]

At the risk of being ‘ cancelled’ for being manufacturist I have noticed people in VW Campervans don’t wave back .....( and as an aside why are horse boxes ALWAYS driven by women?}

We've noticed that with V Ws and also wondered the same about horse boxes. The only answers we've come up with are too sexist for this forum (or most others).

 

[wilsonofthewizard]

Didn`t Einstein forsee Gravitation Waves emanating between Motorhomers ?
So,let`s all follow Einstein...............and wave.

 

[mirfield]

At the risk of being ‘ cancelled’ for being manufacturist I have noticed people in VW Campervans don’t wave back

Yeah. They’re far too cool for the likes of us.

Anyone else feel sad when they’re back in the car and see a bunch of MH coming towards them?

Also, what’s the etiquette when overtaking?

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