Please tell me that I am NOT being a stuck up cow?

[BettySuarez]

Do you often find that when you drive past someone else who has the same type of car as you, that they give a little wave?

I sort of get it (it's a friendly type of camerarderie thing to do) but sometimes it gets on my wick and I don't always wave back.

Actually, if I'm honest, I think that it is a bit of a nobby thing to do

So today, I passed someone in same car who gave a massive over the top wave and I just drove past ignoring him, at which point he turned round at the roundabout behind me and followed me into the supermarket carpark.

He got out of his car and came up to me as I was getting my trolley and asked me what my problem was [cross]

I only drive a Skoda for f' sake!!! It's not like we are members of an elitist club or am I missing an unspoken rule of the road.

So is he being a knob or am I being 'a stuck up cow' (his words!)?

Is this a particularly 'British' thing to do?

The only time anything remotely similar has happened to me is when I was driving my brand new car into the supermarket right in front of someone with the exact same car, in the exact same colour (it was newly released) and with the reg number only one letter different. And then we parked beside each other. To be fair, that was quite cool, and I smiled at her and we exchanged a few jokey words along the lines of "good taste you have there" and then agreed it was a nice car... that's different though, isn't it? Please say it is, and it's not as awful as waving at random people with matching cars...

I used to drive a campervan (old-stylee) and it was compulsory to wave at vans of the same age (not the even older model, or the newer one)

Then when I was subsequently driving a normal boring hatchback i would still automatically wave at campervans and get a bewildered look in return.

Annoying!

I have a p&t pushchair and other people with p&t's come and talk to me sometimes.. so whenever i see a p&t i try aviod. Once a man in Asda spoke for 20 minutes.. about his p&t. Mental.

Sounds like he has a big ego problem. It might be the thing for people with unusual cars to acknowledge on another or for not so unusual cars to perhaps smile, but an all-out wave and then to follow you ? Strange.

Kitty - oh yeah, parking next to each other then having a few self-congratulatory words is the weirdest

Did you also go for tea together?

I used to get this when I drove a very old Beetle but thats the only time. The DC used to love it and do the 'special' VW handsign

He sounds like a bit of an oddbod

My aunt onthe isle of wight had a citroen dolly 2cv thing which attracted the same type of overexcited waving flashing and tooting of horn thing when you passed another on the island. It did amuse me when a passeneger in the damn upturned pram thing but i certainly wouldnt expect it in a modern car.

Betty are you absolutely sure he was waving at you because he was driving a similar car, and not for some other reason? I mean, if he followed you and got cross and asked what your problem was, maybe it wasn't the lack of waving but something else that you did or didn't do which had wound him up? Did he actually mention the same car thing?

Hogshead- I was about to say the same thing. maybe we have waved to each other whilst out and about! I have never waved to a car the same tho'. There is a man who lives close to the school with a car the same as ours, including the colour- he always gives me a death stare, as tho' I should not be driving the same as him

What a weirdo!

Mind you, sometimes I wave at random cars for a laugh. Nothing like a look of bewilderment to cheer me up of a morning

My sister had a 2CV and people would wave - it was fun.

Then she got a new car and out of habit started waving at 2CV drivers much to their confusion!

Never heard of it in modern cars though.

i have been known to do this ,except it very often isnt recipricated ( its that type of area ) and i often do it when im in dh car and forget im not driving mine ,cue bewildered 'do i know you ' looks .I wouldnt under any circumstances follow someone if they didnt wave ,i just assume they havent seen my blatant and quite over the top waving

Bessie -we sometimes do the waving thing as we drive past people walking along. They look so bemused.

This only happened to use when we drove a skoda!

Laurie Oh no! The weirdest? That's discrimination, I'm sure, if it were a bloke and I'd have married him it would be romantic

I miss our Skoda

What a weird and aggressive man. YANBU or stuck up. If you drive an unusual car and see someone else with one then it's common to acknowledge each other but in a skoda fabia it's silly.

Nobody does this to me. I drive a Ford Focus- which just might be the most common car on the road.

Occasionally it happened when I drove a Mini, but it was by no means all the time.

Ha! I don't know whether you're being stuck up or not, if you are then so am I - DH keeps threatening to do this to other drivers of Toyota estates - and he's Australian! (we're in Oz as well). I refuse to countenance it as it seems stupid to me.

Although I do kind of see the point when the car is out of the ordinary or vintage - I remember when I had an old "classic" (ha!) car, and I saw two more of them on the motorway, I deliberately joined their lane so there were 3 of us in a row for a while (until I got bored).

I think the man was a trainspotter in disguise.

We used to have a Skoda and no-one ever did that! I thought you were going to say you drove a Mistubishi Warrior double-cab pick up thing with lights on the roof - then I could understand the need to identify with other knobs drivers of the same car

People do this? I feel a bit out of the loop but am very pleased about it.Man was a weirdo stalkery type I reckon.

I also have a Skoda but wouldn't dream of waving at others in the same predicament

OTOH, old Mini drivers do it, and VW Campervan drivers do it (but only within "type" - T2 drivers don't wave at T25 drivers)

YANBU btw