If you get past me without a wave then I will buy you a pint

[JoshnPen]

We just received our first wave last weekend - on our fourth trip! I may have waved back a little over-enthusiastically!!!

 

[CutThroatJake]

I remember the first time we hired a MH in 2015 on our way to a site near Bolton Abbey.

Passed lots of other MH’s on the A roads who pretty much all waved at us.

We thought we were doing something wrong instead of what it really was, a sign of camaraderie

We now travel around in our A Class and wave at everyone unless I miss them for some driving related issue. Surprising that only about 50% wave back…Mrs CTJ and I have a name for them but I’m too polite to share it openly

 

[Landy Andy]

It was you !! so sorry for saying Morning to you

Gina

I don’t mind saying hello, and we wave to other motorhomes. But I don’t want the full chat hearing about all their medical conditions, the fact they’ve been travelling around for 65weeks, and what their grandkids do. It’s like they are desperate to find a person from the UK to talk to. I’ve got two weeks, and don’t plan on wasting it.

 

[ManTheVan]

🖐

 

[L' Hobo]

I travel around by myself so there is no-one to do the waving and I'm too busy concentrating on the road ahead but I'm not prejudice, I will park my whoosh-bang next to anyone!

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[Carolyn and Kev]

We have an A class, we wave to everyone, why should you think that we think we are above you. Do you ignore A Class owners on sites?

Nope...Black Country born and bread..meaning.....we talk to any body what ever class you may think you are ! You eventually will come down to our level. No Aires or graces...just equal to you or others.
Personally though..I don't bother with it. Its a privilege I have being an owner of a motorhome. I therefore engage with all folks .
Let alone those who think they are special!

 

[Gina M]

I don’t mind saying hello, and we wave to other motorhomes. But I don’t want the full chat hearing about all their medical conditions, the fact they’ve been travelling around for 65weeks, and what their grandkids do. It’s like they are desperate to find a person from the UK to talk to. I’ve got two weeks, and don’t plan on wasting it.

You made me laugh there. I remember being on the Sandringham club site a few years ago. I bought a bottle of wine from the Sandringham Estate gift shop and discovered no cork screw in the van. As nobody was talking to anyone I couldn't ask to borrow a cork screw. I tried everything to get that bottle open, in the end gave up and had a cup of tea Now, older and more confident I would open the van door and shout HELP !!!

Gina

 

[claude et maude]

We are serial wavers, annoys me if I miss a MH so much that I might just start doing u-turns and chasing them down if I forget to wave.

Last time we put the MH in storage and started driving home I saw an MH coming the other way and just waved automatically. At least it made us laugh, so if you drive a Hymer and a nutter in Kent waved at you from his car…yes, that was me!

Is it an age thing, I remember in my youth that one of my mates had a mini, all the minis then waved at each other, same with another friend who had a 2CV. I now think that waving in MH’s may be the last bastion of road based waving…keep going folks or waving could end up extinct like the dinosaurs unless of course you are a bus driver…

 

[Landy Andy]

I think there are a few groups who also wave at each other. Is in proper Defenders do, but obviously that group isn’t growing any more. Motorcycles do it too.

 

[cyberyacht]

There is a hierarchy though. Think The Two Ronnies & John Cleese. I have an A Class. I look down on him. I have a coach built. I look up to him but he has a PVC so I look down on him. I have PVC. I know my place.

I have a SOG toilet. I have a cassette, I have a bucket. You get the idea.

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[iandsm]

What is wrong with motorhomers today. There are too many miserable barstools on the road.

I always give a wave and a nod but no response in many cases.

I wouldn’t mind but many motorhomers are travelling into Pembrokeshire on their holidays and look as miserable as sin!

Cheer up!

There's absolutely nothing wrong with me but this is how I see it. It used to be nice to get a friendly wave from fellow motorhomer's but things have changed. There are so many motorhomer's on the road these days that I could find myself waving constantly. If someone coming towards us waves and IF I am not concentrating on the road and IF it's convenient I will wave back however, the majority don't wave anymore so I am reluctant to wave only to be ignored. Motorhomers, I think used to consider themselves as part of a like minded fraternity with similar interests, not any more, it's taken off big time. I really couldn't care less whether someone waves or not but as above I will return a wave out of politeness, IF convenient. There is no need to take offence or be upset if people don't wave, after all it's not as if they are someone you know or would even talk to if you had the chance.

Having said that, what really gets my goat is when I pull over to let someone in a vehicle coming towards me pass and they don't wave, smile, nod or otherwise acknowledge my having done so and sail past oblivious. That really gets to me.

 

[L' Hobo]

We are serial wavers, annoys me if I miss a MH so much that I might just start doing u-turns and chasing them down if I forget to wave.

Last time we put the MH in storage and started driving home I saw an MH coming the other way and just waved automatically. At least it made us laugh, so if you drive a Hymer and a nutter in Kent waved at you from his car…yes, that was me!

Is it an age thing, I remember in my youth that one of my mates had a mini, all the minis then waved at each other, same with another friend who had a 2CV. I now think that waving in MH’s may be the last bastion of road based waving…keep going folks or waving could end up extinct like the dinosaurs unless of course you are a bus driver…

but all Bus & Coach drivers DO hold their hands up to one-another? (perhaps not the waving bit, that's a bit.........for motorhomers?)

 

[L' Hobo]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with me but this is how I see it. It used to be nice to get a friendly wave from fellow motorhomer's but things have changed. There are so many motorhomer's on the road these days that I could find myself waving constantly. If someone coming towards us waves and IF I am not concentrating on the road and IF it's convenient I will wave back however, the majority don't wave anymore so I am reluctant to wave only to be ignored. Motorhomers, I think used to consider themselves as part of a like minded fraternity with similar interests, not any more, it's taken off big time. I really couldn't care less whether someone waves or not but as above I will return a wave out of politeness, IF convenient. There is no need to take offence or be upset if people don't wave, after all it's not as if they are someone you know or would even talk to if you had the chance.

Having said that, what really gets my goat is when I pull over to let someone in a vehicle coming towards me pass and they don't wave, smile, nod or otherwise acknowledge my having done so and sail past oblivious. That really gets to me.

Could not agree more with your last sentence!

 

[Soots]

I remember the first time we hired a MH in 2015 on our way to a site near Bolton Abbey.

Passed lots of other MH’s on the A roads who pretty much all waved at us.

We thought we were doing something wrong instead of what it really was, a sign of camaraderie

We now travel around in our A Class and wave at everyone unless I miss them for some driving related issue. Surprising that only about 50% wave back…Mrs CTJ and I have a name for them but I’m too polite to share it openly

Mr CTJ, do you blame the parents!

 

[CutThroatJake]

Mr CTJ, do you blame the parents!

Always

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[huck999]

A waste of time waving at my van.
Ive got a left-hooker and most UK drivers wave at the wife in the passengers seat. Shegenerally ignores them because she has her head buried in TikTok.
They never seem to notice me

 

[pelican]

I don’t mind saying hello, and we wave to other motorhomes. But I don’t want the full chat hearing about all their medical conditions, the fact they’ve been travelling around for 65weeks, and what their grandkids do. It’s like they are desperate to find a person from the UK to talk to. I’ve got two weeks, and don’t plan on wasting it.

Well said. Can I tell you all by private message.

 

[PaulC70]

Honestly don't know why people get their knickers in a twist about this. I usually wave, the few times I havent Ive been concentrating on the road! I had one idiot waving at me in Scotland so much he was coming across my side of the road.

Wave, don't wave, people aren't being miserable if they don't wave back, they're either oblivious or concentrating, it's pretty unlikely they are actively making a decision NOT to wave.

 

[pelican]

Honestly don't know why people get their knickers in a twist about this. I usually wave, the few times I havent Ive been concentrating on the road! I had one idiot waving at me in Scotland so much he was coming across my side of the road.

Wave, don't wave, people aren't being miserable if they don't wave back, they're either oblivious or concentrating, it's pretty unlikely they are actively making a decision NOT to wave.

I only wave at people who have a better motorhome than me and that's nearly everyone.