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hello everyone this may upset a few of you by the title i dont mean to. BUT my mum and dad have a moterhome everytime we go out with them,other motorhome owners wave to them and look very happy. We have just bought a lovely caravan and we love it. We been away about 5 times now and everyone we see looks so grumpy we wave and they dont.. why is this???? WE ARE HAPPY CARAVENERS HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL SOON

WHY DONT WE START A NEW TREND LIKE PUTTING THE THUMBS UP AT EACH OTHER OR WAVE.

CARAVANERS RULE OK..

Foreign Motorcaravanners do not wave to you, even although you wave to them.

Also there are much fewer motorcaravns on our roads compaired to caravans and if I was to wave to every caravan I saw, on some journies my hands would be more in the air than on the steering wheel.

Having owned both motorcaravans and caravans, I personally do not find that once on a site, that there is any difference between the attitudes of one type against the other. Indeed we are all there for the same reasons.

As to whether one lot is grumpier than the other, I doubt this very much.

Maybe because you should have both hands on the steering wheel 

We have always waved at fellow motorhome drivers on the roads, but not all motorhomers are happy drivers as some look at me like I have got two heads. When I do get a wave back I sometimes wonder where they are going or been....

Shouldn't you be concentrating on your driving rather than waving at people.  Driving with one hand is considered dangerous and reckless.  Why should we be waving at total strangers anyway as they mena absolutely nothing to us. 

Perhaps we should consider waving to every one that drives a 4 x 4 or every one that drives a Toyota as we have that in common!  At least that woudl keep the wavers happy.   Tough if we lose control and hit them head on.  They shouldn't have waved at us first!

Serious though seems a pointless exercise waving at total strangers.  After all you could be waving a Nick griffin or heaven forbud, Gormless Buffoon Brown.

I used to drive a bus. but didnt wave to all the bus drivers!.

 I like your pic too

surfer01 hit on the head so far 9 replys 8 grumpy people

When we forst picked up our caravan in June, we noticed a couple of fellow caravaners wave at us, much to OHs amusement. So we then waved at the next van we saw...and they ignored us. Once on site, we have always found everyone extremely friendly, whether they have a caravan, motorhome or tent.

How young is a 'young caravaner' btw? OH says he's too young to have a caravan...but he's 41. Is this young?

I wave at all fellow caravanners - the number of fingers I wave varies.

Seriously, there are just too many caravans on the road for this sort of thing, and the roads are too crowded. This isn't the 1950s anymore.

Quote: Originally posted by askill on 26/10/2009

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How young is a 'young caravaner' btw? OH says he's too young to have a caravan...but he's 41. Is this young?

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There has been a series of letters in (I think) the Caravan Club mag lately, with people competing to have the honour of being the youngest caravan owner. One lad is 18 and been towing his own caravan with his own car since he turned 17, having been brought up with it by his caravanning parents.

Really, the idea that caravanning is restricted to any particular age is a myth, and a particularly weird bit of reverse snobbery. It's simply that, as large and expensive objects, people tend to be a bit older when they get into caravanning, and they enjoy it so much that they go on caravanning well into their old age.

Quote: Originally posted by Viggo on 26/10/2009

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I wave at all fellow caravanners - the number of fingers I wave varies.

Post last edited on 26/10/2009 14:08:51

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I remember when the AA used to salute every one with an  AA badge. It was stopped for safety reasons.Can't see why people do it,I ride a motorbike and that used to be the thing but more or less dont do that now.

WG