Cars & Transportation Where has the "thank you" wave gone??!?!?

[Registered User]

- the suburban street lined with parked cars, let you through first wave

This is the main situation I was thinking of. Some great guys, such as myself , will go out their way by waiting for a long time to let oncoming cars pass. No wave, nothin'
Boo!

 

[Cruyff14]

Yeah I don't wave when using a crossing. They're supposed to stop.

 

[Quivorir]

You arsehole.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Im a wog and i don't wave

Come at me

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

This is the main situation I was thinking of. Some great guys, such as myself , will go out their way by waiting for a long time to let oncoming cars pass. No wave, nothin'
Boo!

This pisses me off massively. If it's a warm day and I've got the window down, I'll wave maniacally out the window just to get their attention and let them know I expected a wave from them.

Because I'm essentially an a-hole.

 

[Registered User]

If it's a warm day and I've got the window down, I'll wave maniacally out the window just to get their attention and let them know I expected a wave from them.

Ha, I might start doing this.

 

[Gibbsy]

Was travelling on a dual lane highway yesterday, doing 100km/h and in the right lane about to pass this driver up ahead. Suddenly she drifts across about a wheel length over the middle of the road just as I'm about to go past (not changing lanes, she just lost concentration obviously) and as I'm furiously tooting to alert her while slowing down at the same time, I look to my left and she offers up a stationery hand as a token of apology.

The thank-you wave may have disappeared for some, but it appears the "sorry and thank god I didnt just hit your car because I would have been forking out a lot of money" wave is still alive and well

 

[iluvparis]

Was travelling on a dual lane highway yesterday, doing 100km/h and in the right lane about to pass this driver up ahead. Suddenly she drifts across about a wheel length over the middle of the road just as I'm about to go past (not changing lanes, she just lost concentration obviously) and as I'm furiously tooting to alert her while slowing down at the same time, I look to my left and she offers up a stationery hand as a token of apology.

The thank-you wave may have disappeared for some, but it appears the "sorry and thank god I didnt just hit your car because I would have been forking out a lot of money" wave is still alive and well

Post to be continued in the AFS thread?

 

[Gibbsy]

Post to be continued in the AFS thread?

Haha nah it was some old bat. I just held up the hand in return and drove right on

 

[FootyJunkie]

Bring Thanksgiving to Australia.

 

[Shell]

My faith in humanity has been somewhat restored.

Driving back from voting (so in my local area, is less than a 5 min drive) I...

- was given way to among about 50 billion parked cars on either side of the road- someone had to give way or there'd be a collision. Gave the thank you wave and smile, got a thank you for the thank you wave back.

- neighbour backed out of his house, probably should have given way to me driving thru, i stopped to give way, got the thank you "thumbs up"!

 

[Doss]

My faith in humanity has been somewhat restored.

Driving back from voting (so in my local area, is less than a 5 min drive) I...

- was given way to among about 50 billion parked cars on either side of the road- someone had to give way or there'd be a collision. Gave the thank you wave and smile, got a thank you for the thank you wave back.

- neighbour backed out of his house, probably should have given way to me driving thru, i stopped to give way, got the thank you "thumbs up"!

You got luckier than me. I voted at Lowther Hall in Essendon- and not one thank you wave was had.

 

[Shell]

You got luckier than me. I voted at Lowther Hall in Essendon- and not one thank you wave was had.

Everyone must be in the shits over at Essendon. Cant blame them really.

 

[Doss]

Everyone must be in the shits over at Essendon. Cant blame them really.

They probably all just came back from Geelong. That'd explain it.

 

[Shell]

They probably all just came back from Geelong. That'd explain it.

Nah we're cool.

We got a big ass xmas tree. Looking forward to checking it out when I drive thru there soon.

 

[HBF]

It's all but gone where I live in East Bentleigh (Melbourne).
Fair dinkum, I reckon I get a wave about 10% of the time, and, predictably, that's from older people.

Big believer in the thankyou wave.
Always do it when it's needed. Always!

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

I'm an eternal pedestrian and I always try to wave when a car stops to let me cross. Usually it's a quick raise of the arm but hopefully the right message is still conveyed.

 

[bkozican]

Rare to get a wave in Perth these days....Most people are raging to much over here

 

[Cleavy]

people have a large sense of entitlement these days, so they feel they don't owe you anything in return.

 

[Ahern2Boof]

I need to teach my girlfriend how to do the thank you wave. If someone waves to her or she is waving to someone, her hand leaves the steering wheel and gives a very exaggerated wave, although she doesn't know it's exaggerated. Needs to learn the 'hands-on-steering-wheel finger raise wave'.

Yesterday I was approaching a set of traffic lights and there was a long queue of cars. There was a supermarket carpark entry-exit directly to my left where I was stationary waiting for the green light. A car was waiting to exit from the car park and was heading in the same direction as me. Feeling generous and with quite a lot of cars behind me, I waved her through before me once the light went green and the car in front of me had created space.

Nothing. She stayed there.

So I thought, alright I'll go, put my foot down, all of a sudden she goes to pull out in front of me. I brake, she brakes. We both make eye contact, before i'm like '* it ain't ever helping anyone again' and speed off.

 

[Shell]

, I waved her through before me once the light went green and the car in front of me had created space.

Nothing. She stayed there.

So I thought, alright I'll go, put my foot down, all of a sudden she goes to pull out in front of me. I brake, she brakes. We both make eye contact, before i'm like '**** it ain't ever helping anyone again' and speed off.

Oh yes, have been there before many times. ****ing shits me to tears.

 

[Doss]

If I'm waving someone through and they're not taking the hint, I flash them. If that doesn't send the message, then you just barrel through yourself.

 

[Shell]

If I'm waving someone through and they're not taking the hint, I flash them. If that doesn't send the message, then you just barrel through yourself.

Wow am suprised that doesnt send the message.

 

[BEEG]

I always do it almost feel guilty if I don't

Does my head in when people don't do it

 

[TheKanga]

I always get the wave/give the wave.
Pretty common around here.