A Friendly Wave

Mr OrangeTree
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edited August 2019 in Motorhomes #1

It may be my imagination, or my age related increase in grumpiness, but has the friendly wave to passing motorhomes stopped?

Waving to yourself, as I have been for most of this year, is arguable a sanity questioning thing, but I am not noticing a response rate that is very high at all!

It's not a biggie, of course.  It's just that it has felt different this year. 

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  • huskydog
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    edited August 2019 #2

    I always wave , but no doubt there will be someone along to say it's dangerous and you should be concentrating on the road winksealed

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2019 #3

    Husky, you took the words right out of my mouth. Thanks for that.

    Has the waving stopped? I sincerely hope so.👍🏻

     

  • Apperley
    Apperley Forum Participant Posts: 254
    edited August 2019 #4

    Why can't we wave at each other? It's a basic human reaction and nice and friendly in a world that needs a dose of friendliness.

    Safety? In our MH it's the passenger who has waving duties.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2019 #5

    You can do exactly as you like, Appers.👍🏻

  • JVB66
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    edited August 2019 #6

    With the proliferation of motor caravans , it could lead to RSI surprised

  • huskydog
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    edited August 2019 #7

    And Motorhomes as wellcool

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2019 #8

    We could all end up waving to this fellow. I’ve not seen him on site yet… or have I?😃

  • MichaelT
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    edited August 2019 #9

    I always wave if I am not on my mobile, drinking, eating or having a fag wink

  • EasyT
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    edited August 2019 #10

    Being simple minded it used to amuse me when driving solo to flash my lights and wave to the occasional car travelling in the other direction with more than one occupant, Almost invariably they waved back. I could imagine the passenger saying to the driver 'who was that?' 'No idea'! laughing

  • JVB66
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    edited August 2019 #11

    I just quote the V5 definition ,to keep it official wink

  • GEandGJE
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    edited August 2019 #12

    Please excuse my ignorance but if a Motorhome can be referred to as a Motor Caravan can I called a caravan a non-motorised Motorhome.

    If there’s an emoji for Tongue firmly in Cheek I would put it here.   

  • Cornersteady
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    edited August 2019 #13

    I miss the old traditions, the AA man who used to salute for one. 

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2019 #14

    Fortunately, I wasn’t there at the time.😀

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2019 #15

    Here’s one.

  • JVB66
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    edited August 2019 #16

    And  now with the latest "update"the lack of washing machine has been added to the complaintwink

  • JVB66
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    edited August 2019 #17

    Or as most seem to be "static"when set up on sites i think motor caravans are more akin to motorised caravanswink

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2019 #18

    My OH wonders why the Tesco delivery van doesn't reciprocate when she waves.

  • Navigateur
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    edited August 2019 #19

     . . . or NOT salute, which was what we were all looking out for in those days.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited August 2019 #20

    is she a fellow Tesco driver?

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2019 #21

    tongue-out No.

  • hitchglitch
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    edited August 2019 #22

    There are so many motorhomes on the road now that one manufacturer has produced a “dummy waver”. A sort of automated hand mounted on the passenger side of the windscreen that can recognise another motorhome and activate a “wave”. It runs on 4 AA batteries.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2019 #23

    Does it wave at Tesco vans?

  • KeithandMargaret
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    edited August 2019 #24

     ........and I've waved at Carrefour vans and a few Horse boxes.

    Better safe than sorry for the first wave, and acknowledgement, of the day.

    cool

     

  • BlueVanMan
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    edited August 2019 #25

    One of my favourite pranks is to try to induce my wife to wave at Tesco Vans (other brands are available) also prison vans. She is getting wise to it now though. 

    We rather think that Hymers don't wave since we got  our "humble" van conversion (we used to have a Hymer) but probably waving is less common, perhaps a tradition that is dying out with the older  Motor-Caravanners.

    Oh and Motor-Caravan is both cumbersome and perhaps a bit misleading but it is a legal definition so in anything official we are stuck with it.

    I much prefer "camping car" which is what they are called in French. 

     

     

  • young thomas
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    edited August 2019 #26

    yes, we are 'Campingcaristes' when in France but we do refer to our MH as 'the van'....certainly not 'motor caravan' despite the V5C definition.

    i do wave from time to time, some respond, some don't....perhaps they don't like us..undecided

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited August 2019 #27

    There’s definitely a distinct camaraderie amongst the AS monocoque owning fraternity. Rare not to get some sort of acknowledgement if it’s safe to do so. The discreet finger lift, the reciprocal smiles, the cheery wave, the enthusiastic double seat bounce both hands wafting passenger. You become good friends if you park up next to one! 😁 A full look around is required, then asking about who did the upholstery re-cover........😂

  • SteveL
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    edited August 2019 #28

    Similar, perhaps because we had a caravan but to us it is the van. Not Motorhome or Motor Caravan. 

    I wave if I remember. To start with I wondered why everyone was waving at me.😂

  • MalcMc
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    edited August 2019 #29

    We wave and makes us feel warm, no harm being done, just a polite nod to fellows on the road, oh and my OH has waved at the Sainsburys man, funny no wave back, just a red face sitting next to me !!!

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited August 2019 #30

    I found this HG, take it. . .It’s yours👍🏻-

  • HOTORMOMER
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    edited August 2019 #31

    In answer to Mr.Orange Tree's concern over the lack of friendly waving between motorhomers, I must say that I haven't noticed less response to my wave only a different response. Instead of a reciprocal wave with an open handed, side-side movement, there now appears to be a new 'fashion' of a two or one fingered sign. Well....call me naive if you like, and I have led a sheltered life, I can't think for the life of me just what this new signage fashion means. As I always like to be friendly to my fellow motorhomers - in a kindred spirit way, after all you never know when you'll need to borrow a hose or a tin opener, perhaps I should be adopting this new fashion just to see how it's received. Has this happened to others and what do they think?

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