Courtosy Waves

[A Balding Fan]

Does anyone even know what this is anymore. Ive probably driven over 200 miles today, and NOBODY, not a single person gave a curtosy wave when letting them into traffic, letting the squeeze in off a exit ramp, or letting them go first at a stop sign.


This really ticks me off, I still always give a courtosy wave its the proper thing to do.

[jonesbeach10]

ABF, these so called courtesy waves became extinct on Long Island in 1947.

[BCDurbin]

Does anyone even know what this is anymore. Ive probably driven over 200 miles today, and NOBODY, not a single person gave a curtosy wave when letting them into traffic, letting the squeeze in off a exit ramp, or letting them go first at a stop sign.


This really ticks me off, I still always give a courtosy wave its the proper thing to do.

Apparently, after a hour and a half, nobody knows what a courtesy reply is either! I feel your pain BF, I always wave even I don't know if they see it! Of course I have to wave the way I drive! - BCD

[BCDurbin]

ABF, these so called courtesy waves became extinct on Long Island in 1947.

Ah, ya beat me to it jb10! And heck I even wave when I am flying out of LAGUARDIA!! That's a funny signoff 10!

[conched]

Obviously you weren't driving in Texas!

Here, when you meet someone on the road, you give a little nod and lift that one finger without taking your hand from the steering wheel-- you know that one finger closest to the thumb.

...now that's only if you don't have the cell phone in one hand while eating a barbeque sammich or kolache with the other.

[NorthernConch]

ABF, these so called courtesy waves became extinct on Long Island in 1947.

it has certainly made it over to new haven as well.

[Tiki Bar]

Does anyone even know what this is anymore. Ive probably driven over 200 miles today, and NOBODY, not a single person gave a courtesy wave when letting them into traffic, letting the squeeze in off a exit ramp, or letting them go first at a stop sign.


This really ticks me off, I still always give a courtesy wave its the proper thing to do.

Bugs me too when I don't get them... fortunately, as of late, people have been generous with them. Seems to go in phases...

[Lightning Bolt]

Here in SoCal...

we wave our handguns on the freeways

[sonofabeach]

We've still got the courtesy wave here. It really just depends on the person and not where you are.
Being a Jeep owner, I get the acknowledgement wave from other Jeep owners too.

[Left Field ParrotHead]

I just wish people would use all their fingers when they waved to me.

[bravedave]

After five years of being a rat without a race, I am back in the daily grind with all you traffic masochists.

I have given the wave to any driver I have had the privilege of cutting off. (There have been many these past few weeks.)

Not many drivers realize why I am waving or what they have done to deserve it. (I make my own way based on GVW.) But I appreciate their consideration nonetheless, so I wave politely... or apologetically.

A wave while driving is the same as a handshake while armed -- an expression that we are all equals out here.

We stand capable of doing each other great damage, yet refrain from so.

This is not on our own account, but for the rest of our tribe, who must ply these same roads tomorrow. And if we do not provide a small offering of peace to the other warriors on the trail...
...the next trip will be much worse than ours.

Wave for your children.

[ejr]

I wave all the time, and i always catch myself saying Thank You and then laughing since nobody can hear me except me!

[Prthd119]

I wave all the time, and i always catch myself saying Thank You and then laughing since nobody can hear me except me!

Ditto....

[RinglingRingling]

Obviously you weren't driving in Texas!

Here, when you meet someone on the road, you give a little nod and lift that one finger without taking your hand from the steering wheel-- you know that one finger closest to the thumb.

...now that's only if you don't have the cell phone in one hand while eating a barbeque sammich or kolache with the other.

they do that in MN as well. In MSP, it's a slightly different finger waving tho..

[nycparrothead]

Maybe they don't wave because he doesn't know how to spell?

[tikitatas]

I wave all the time, and i always catch myself saying Thank You and then laughing since nobody can hear me except me!

Ditto....

Me, too!
People around here still do it, and I feel slighted when someone does not.

[RinglingRingling]

Maybe they don't wave because he doesn't know how to spell?

great... no subway running means no groping on the subways. You're gonna be here all week, aren't you?

[LIPH]

ABF, these so called courtesy waves became extinct on Long Island in 1947.

That's probably because most drivers on LI don't have the courtesy to let anyone merge in front of them.

I always acknowledge it when someone lets me in.

[nycparrothead]

Maybe they don't wave because he doesn't know how to spell?

great... no subway running means no groping on the subways. You're gonna be here all week, aren't you?

Yes... Try the veal!

[mings]

I was just talking about this with someone I know from Hawaii. We were talking about how driving here in The City (NYC) is so defensive and "every man for himself" and she was commenting on how her dad has a hard time when he goes to Cali and deals with the traffic. Forget the City. No ONe waves around here.

I do it in Philly occasionally, but even then people don't let you in and you have to make your own spot. In that case, I wave but it's a different kind of wave.

NOTM Dec 2005