Some people on here wonder why some drivers don't wave, calling them grumpy, ignorant etc.

Being a waver myself I have had a couple of incidents whilst out and about in my scoob where I have waved and then immediately wished I hadn't. The first one was a while ago now. I was approaching a traffic island with a macdonalds perched on a corner right by it (people familiar with Redditch will know it). Anyway, another scoob comes off the island towards me with a youngish lad driving it, I stuck up my hand to wave and he just looked down his spotty nose at me and turned into macdonalds where he proceeded to rev the nuts off it through the drivethrough! Zorst roaring, dump valve dumping, tyres screeching, what a ***!! I was still waiting to pull out at the island and was cringing with embarrassment!

The second one was a nice looking mica red one which was obviously being driven quite hard but I didn't realise how hard until he came past me, again I waved, he waved back but him and his mate were laughing about it, little minds. As he came past I noticed his exhaust which I can only assume must have been homemade, it must have been 8" in diameter, looked totally ridiculous (Ok, I'm sounding old now). Anyway he was heading the same way as me along quite slow roads, junctions etc. and the way he drove (obviously showing off to his mate) was laughable. I was behind him in Grandad mode, I didn't want people to think that we were on some sort of 'crooooz'. I couldn't distance myself enough from him. *** no.2!!

Obviously chavish behaviour of the lowest order, but there were no caps on show, so it wasn't immediately obvious.

After these deeply scarring incidents I am very careful who I wave to now, as are plenty of other decent and friendly scoob owners I'll bet!

Paranoia rules.

 

I always wave to fellow scoobie drivers

But with the prices falling on early models now to a couple of grand, it hardly suprising that the chavs are getting hold of them and driving like ****.
I wish one of my first cars was a scoobie....
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but it was my 3rd car and I was 22

 

sorry about the double post, pressed submit by accident.

 

Tell me about it, I usually get loads of waves in Essex, but when I go to Kent to see my girlfriend no bugger ever waves regardless!!! The girlfriend gets a few though! lol!!

Some lads look at her as though she shouldn't be driving it! lol!!

 

I wave occasionally, but it's awkaward when you don't get a response, so I do it less and less. Maybe it's just cos mines is just a standard MY99 UK Turbo.

 

most wave but sometimes people don't notice and might look ignorant

 

Yeah, I used to have a standard uk my00 and some people looked down their noses at me, let alone wave!

 

If I'm ever in Redditch, I'll give you a wave m8!

 

I'll wave at any impreza me

 

I'll be in a P1, I'll keep an eye out for you.

 

Theres a quite a few scooby drivers round my way, and apart from one ignorant old cow, everyone else waves. Infact even a few of the local chavs in their fibreglass waiting to explode kitted euro boxes wave.
Being courteous(sp) dosent cost anything, so I dont mind it. If theyre to ignorant to oblige, then thats their problem.

 

IV recently purchased a bugeye (black mica) and have noticed these "waving of the brotherhood" phenomenon. Its cool but wen someone in a moving scooby waves at you you have a micro-second to wave back. Iv wanted respond back a few times but couldnt! Personally a nod of the head or a thumbs up is much quicker and cooler.

 

I still always wave, it's a nice aspect of owning the car, but I was just trying to add an insight as to why some people don't. They are probably very nice people, but have probably seen a similar scenario as described in my opening post, and are dubious about waving in case: a) you snub them, and/or b) you could be about to embarrass them with idiotic driving. Afterall, 99% of the time they don't know you from Adam.

 

Agreed.

 

Whoops! I've just thought of a couple of incidents where I have been the one driving like a ***. Apologies in advance.

 

I only got my p1 on saturday evening, and so far have waved to about 5 different scoob owners, but hey no f***er waves back @ me


I bet if i started goin to them they'd start waving .... well some form of gesture I expect lol...

 

Not all scooby owners use the tinternet and know about the secret wave ya know.

I normally wave unless im in a hardcore im better than you mood in which case I drive past with me nose in the air.

Gary

 

Got a bugeye and had it since last May. Always try and wave at every scoob I see, just sometimes miss them.

Although I must admit, after four or five snubs in a row, I do feel less inclined to wave first.

 

If i cant wave, I always give 'em a quick flash

 

Same here

 

pervert

 

i always wave
trouble is i sometimes wave when driving my pick up truck by mistake
force of habit i suppose
get some strange looks though

budgie

 

I always wave, it goes with the territory - just like the hideous mpg
Ed

P.S. Just realised, that was my 100th post... YIPEEEEE!

 

I have waved to fellow drivers and regretted it also. When I did not get a reply on one occasion I was quite pleased he did not see me when his hidiously 'personalised' car went past and I saw what the chav had done to it.
Poor Scooby.
(scunny area)

 

P.S.
Congrats. Ed.

I was as excited when I reached my 30th and became a 'regular'

 

I must admit when I was last in redditch over xmas I waved at a load of imprezas but got no reply, this could of been the fact that I was using my dads silver avensis over the holiday period while the scoob was tucked away. But if I see ya when i`m there next, I`ll wave if my visit coincides with a meet and I have time i`ll pop in.


Jase

 

big wave from the wirral

 

i always wave if i see another scooby.

even legacys etc

and when i'm in my red astra estate too!

 

I always try and wave if I can. BUT people have been doing it less and less these years. So I guess I find my self doing it more and more less myself cos you feel daft waving to some one you dont know when your with the wife and she knows what is happening, ha ha. The best time for me is up to the lake district, Ive got plenty of un known mates up there,roll on the summer, and the best for waving are the blokes with a few kids in the back a wife in the front and driving a scoobie wagon! I hope I also have that privelidge in life!!!!!!

 

What's wrong with a good-old thumbs-up?

One of these always gets a showing when I see someone driving a nice scoob.