What Is It With Some People? (1 Viewer)

[rangi]

Says "hand wave or willie wave, up to you"

 

[Puddleduck]

But what do they say???

That would be telling but it's something like this and Jim gave them to me.

 

[CandC]

Well, this has certainly stirred up some lively debate

Yes, everyone has the right to wave or not to wave, just as they have the right to turn their head away when met with an uninvited smile or "good morning."

Wouldn't the world be just a tiny bit nicer if more people smiled though? So here have a big and a from me, free of charge and without obligation!

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[Seajay]

Free of charge !!....and you live in Cornwall !...steady on old chap,..not to be letting the side down now!!..

 

[whoa]

Well, this has certainly stirred up some lively debate

Yes, everyone has the right to wave or not to wave, just as they have the right to turn their head away when met with an uninvited smile or "good morning."

Wouldn't the world be just a tiny bit nicer if more people smiled though? So here have a big and a from me, free of charge and without obligation!

I live in Yorkshire so if it's going free I'll have it, this is one southerner whose learnt the lessons, good job there's no Yorkies on this site or I'd be in bother, only lived here 37 years, but a very nice Gesture From CandC, so I'll return the favour oh but I did say I live in Yorkshire therefore bill is in the post

 

[Seajay]

A tight Yorkie ?....never!!.........so let's be havin yer address 'cos we don't hang about 'ere in Cornwall about sending out our bills y'know.. someone has to pay for rescuing all you silly buggers that keep on falling off Lands End !!

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[whoa]

Perhaps if you all paid your council tax, you could have street lighting on during the hours of darkness so the wonderful paying visitors wouldn't fall off anyway someone's nicked the Lands End sign so visitors don't realise it's the end, and I don't consider the Longships lighthouse as street lighting, but I suppose it's cheaper

 

[Fireman Sam]

Well Fireman Sam, could the 'deep inside misery' just be trapped wind!?.......Bye the way CWH I see you are a resident of the great ''Oggieland''.........whereabouts ? ...

Nothing trapped about it, and it wouldn't make anyone smile.

 

[StefAndDi]

I try and wave but often don't on the motorway ..

I always acknowledge oncoming motorhomers, but it amuses me when people wave when driving on a motorway. If I'm in Lane 1 going in one direction and the other vehicle is in Lane 1 going the other way, we are probably 50-odd yards apart with a closing speed in excess of 100 miles per hour.
I prefer to concentrate on my driving.
Stef.

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[gus-lopez]

Once you live here then you get used to entering any establishment, shop,office, bar ,restaurant, mot station, etc; & saying " Hola, buenas días/tardes/noche " to every one or no one.

 

[Wildbill]

We have ben in west Yorkshire today ben very poor on the wave front think I missed the singe saying no waving past this point.

 

[CWH]

We have ben in west Yorkshire today ben very poor on the wave front think I missed the singe saying no waving past this point.

Perhaps they didn't see you if you're "under the van"!

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[Wildbill]

now siting in new hill car park.
park for the weeman dog walk for the dog
bit of traffic noise but barbell and not a motor homer in site
bill

 

[whoa]

We have ben in west Yorkshire today ben very poor on the wave front think I missed the singe saying no waving past this point.

This is serious, because whoa is me whoa is me for I am Undone, infamy infamy, you've all got it in for me, got to agree with HappyBrewer, this morning in my guise of super hero blue van man we have travelled from our home in W. Yorkshire, into N. Yorkshire and the dales, where we are staying until Friday morning , so during the journey roughly 70 miles, I saw about 8 proper MH's and a about 5 PVC's. I wave frantically and madly, and not one acknowledgement did I get, and it goes to prove what I said, because as I looked at the oncoming MH, you could see the look on there faces as our van approached theirs, the look says its nowt to do with us lot van nowt to do with us, even though I waved, I had thought of getting some goofy decals, and going as goofmobile, but then remembered the recent sad story of the nun who had an accident, and cause she had some stickers with religious wording on , they were accessories she hadn't mentioned, at that time they declined to pay her out, whether that's change I don't know, but it just goes to show we are outcasts, is there a discount for outcasts, my wife will never be the same again (thankfully), and HappyBrewer, you misread the sign coming into Yorkshire, it says. Abandon all hope ye who enter here, oh I hope HB you weren't one of those that passed because no one waved back

 

[whoa]

Once you live here then you get used to entering any establishment, shop,office, bar ,restaurant, mot station, etc; & saying " Hola, buenas días/tardes/noche " to every one or no one.

Everyone I understand, if no one, are you feeling at all well, has the heat of the Spanish sun got to you, you really have me quite worried about your health...........anybody locally in Spain got a spare white coat with leather strappings, I think you might need it,

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[Bobndebs McKay]

Just spent 5 days driving down through France, got a wave off virtually every MoHo coming the other way!! Good job they didn't know I am a Yorkshireman crossed with a Jock

 

[ianhyslop]

There was an article in the MMM sometime ago discussing waving , it listed types of waves , hierarchy etc . It was very funny and surprisingly true to life , personally I wave to all MHs .

 

[whoa]

Do you do the royals wave or the one that granma in the Beverly hillbillies did, or the winston Churchill salute the correct way round of course oops not that one Sir, but this one

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[whoa]

There was an article in the MMM sometime ago discussing waving , it listed types of waves , hierarchy etc . It was very funny and surprisingly true to life , personally I wave to all MHs .

I usually wave to the cabin crew of the MH, and still get nothing, perhaps I ought to try waving just at the motorhome could be a good ideaa

 

[Puddleduck]

Do you do the royals wave or the one that granma in the Beverly hillbillies did, or the winston Churchill salute the correct way

Both wings as enthusiastically as possible



Usually get a return rate of 75% or more. Sad but we do keep a score

 

[Andy]

No hierarchy we are aware of, but one thing that caught us out for a while,
Many motorhomes, even those on UK plates are LHD, including ours. So while I always try to wave I was not sure I had been seen. So now we both wave, passenger and driver, to be sure.
So next time you think that someone has not waved, glance over to see the near side just to check that the driver is not waving frantically.

Or maybe the oncomming occupants are just not into the spirit of the comaradarie of motorhoming

Yup,...........mine also; yes I wave, flash occasionally , most times ignored, nearly always by Brit registered moho's...........

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[Seajay]

I think my waving has something to do with which side of the bed I got out of !.....Well that's a saying my dear old Mum used to say, don't know if it's used by others though....and of course physically impossible in dear old Mr Smiley as I would end up on his bonnet!!.....how frightfully undignified at 10 am!

 

[MicknPat]

Yes.
To prevent people blanking you; shout loud enough to penetrate their ear wax.
Many seem to go out of their way to avoid communication.
The drill for them is to park up, put up window blinds, let dog out for a crap, shut themselves back in again.
Weird!

Don't forget the windbreaks around their pitch.

 

[ianhyslop]

On a trip sometime ago traveling down to a cricket international ,my brother decided that it would be funny to wave in a very enthusiastic and over the top camp style .now that got a reaction.
He has not been allowed to sit up front since .

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[Hammie]

No hierarchy we are aware of, but one thing that caught us out for a while,
Many motorhomes, even those on UK plates are LHD, including ours. So while I always try to wave I was not sure I had been seen. So now we both wave, passenger and driver, to be sure.
So next time you think that someone has not waved, glance over to see the near side just to check that the driver is not waving frantically.

Or maybe the oncomming occupants are just not into the spirit of the comaradarie of motorhoming

Me too LHD

 

[Hammie]

I


I did not realise that there was an etiquette "Thou shalt wave "being one of the commandments .

Me neither but if I get a wave I wave back, upbringing you see

 

[Jaws]

Hello, my name is jaws and I am a waver / headlight flasher

It really is an addiction..
I wave at everyone.. If I miss a wave I feel really bad ( possibly withdrawal symptoms ? )

To make matters worse, not only do I have the motorhome, but I am a biker and drive a Smart car
All three groups are 'wavers'
So I often get muddled up and wave at the wrong vehicle for the vehicle I am in / on

If you are driving along and either a biker or a Smartie driver waves at you, just wave back. ( and feel pity !! LOL !! )

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[Judge Mental]

This is serious, because whoa is me whoa is me for I am Undone, infamy infamy, you've all got it in for me, got to agree with HappyBrewer, this morning in my guise of super hero blue van man we have travelled from our home in W. Yorkshire, into N. Yorkshire and the dales, where we are staying until Friday morning , so during the journey roughly 70 miles, I saw about 8 proper MH's and a about 5 PVC's. I wave frantically and madly, and not one acknowledgement did I get, and it goes to prove what I said, because as I looked at the oncoming MH, you could see the look on there faces as our van approached theirs, the look says its nowt to do with us lot van nowt to do with us, even though I waved, I had thought of getting some goofy decals, and going as goofmobile, but then remembered the recent sad story of the nun who had an accident, and cause she had some stickers with religious wording on , they were accessories she hadn't mentioned, at that time they declined to pay her out, whether that's change I don't know, but it just goes to show we are outcasts, is there a discount for outcasts, my wife will never be the same again (thankfully), and HappyBrewer, you misread the sign coming into Yorkshire, it says. Abandon all hope ye who enter here, oh I hope HB you weren't one of those that passed because no one waved back

I think I saw you once..maybe not. But there was this demented women in the passenger seat waving frantically with both arms? was that you? If it was you need to cool it as as all I was thinking was jeez is something wrong with our van....

Never got the waving thing to be honest or giving inanimate objects like vans names..has your as a name? Yes I guess some could call moi a grump..snob maybe...but I will never get it. I could be pressed to flick a wrist with a gentle single pass of the hand if I saw a fellow funstar stickered vehicle..but really that's as far as it would go

edit: OMGG....headlight flashers! now that downright dangerous...unless warning other that police speed trap further down in your direction (french motorists used to be real good as this)

"pity" don't get anywhere near what I feel for you

 

[Chris]

I got blanked by someone this very morning.

That said I did inadvertently set off the van alarm at 6.45am and took ages to scramble round to find my keys.

 

[Scattycat]

We, 'nearly, always wave to other mh folks.
Though over the years we have noticed it's usually UK registered mh drivers/ passengers are the worst for not waving back.
Living in France we, as you would expect, drive a French registered van and I'm surprised how stand off'sh 'some' Brits can be. Many a time on an aire or campsite we have said hello or good morning or whatever to folks in Brit vans and it seems that because they assume we're 'johny foriegners' they completely blank us. Whereas, in the main, most johny foriengers tend to at least return a greeting.

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