Not tongue in cheek........and that attitude is what drives road rage and gives caravanners the image that becomes them.........self centred twats!!
The wave is long gone.....I’m on a road trip at the moment and reading this post made me realize I don’t even look at the driver approaching than alone their hands.
I thought I’d deliberately look and wait for a wave, spotted one from an old farmer, it more looked like he waved out of habit than genuinely waving at me, I waved back and wondered if he even noticed. One lady caught me out, I thought she was waving but she was playing with her hair.
I got bored after an hour waiting for a wave so I figured I’d wave at every car, tried all sorts of variations without luck, not even a fellow POS hi-lux driver waved. Hi-lux is my work car, I have a ‘campervan’ as my tourer (well a 4WD that I sleep in and it has a kitchen/fridge and storage)
I assume if one initiates wave often enough they might get a few in return.
I don’t think my general approach is representative of the rest of the road users and I doubt generates any road rage
- I don’t wave, and haven’t experienced any road rage from not waving.
- I only turn my UHF on when really needed, big wide loads maybe, roadworks maybe, if I’m traveling with somebody than generally yes other than that there is no real need, well no lawful need. Normally the tunes are pumping pretty loud and there is no chance of hearing the UHF. I must get around to relocating and fitting my new antenna so that joe blow doesn’t see I have a UHF fitted. The few times I’ve assist people around on the dirt ends up in a spray of rocks. The brides always spends at least 1/3 of the day steering, don’t recall her ever turning on the UHF.
Again bored today I put the UHF on and turned the tunes down, heard a wide load calling up but never come across it, although it pretty hard to miss them when they are approaching. While the radio was on two caravans pulled over to let traffic by, didn’t hear anybody on the radio not that it was required. I had the radio on Scan so figured it would have covered 18/40. Don’t reckon I’ll turn it back on for the next 1600km.
- on the black stuff I sit on the speed limit (GPS), on the odd time somebody decides to be a hemorrhoid and I notice I generally don’t make any adjustments as they’ll sort it out at the next opportunity, considering they are sitting on the speed limit. The bride normally drives to the speedo or slightly slower....doesn’t seem to upset anybody.
- on dirt, I drive to conditions, the few times I’ve decided to help the impatient it normally ends with a shower if rocks. Billowing dust, why would one want to plough throw with limited vision putting a lot of trust in the car calling you through
Oh, I got 100k into my trip today before I notice the mirror were still at the brides adjustment.
Oh I no longer tow but used the same principles when I did......don’t reckon I’ve upset anybody today.
I have a two week road trip to Lucindale and back in September in the tourer, I’ll make a point of seeing how I fit in with the rest of the road users.
Happy counting waves.
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