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?

< waves at Oenopod >

my dad used to do this - he had a skoda, think its part of the owners club! he used to get excited if he got a wave but was never bothered if he didn't, it was like a game on long car journeys. This guy followed you??!! crazy person

Very bizarre. Had a bloke ask for my number whilst at the lights on the A580 once

Apparently my model of car is mainly driven by twats so i won't start waving

Betty I drive a Skoda Fabia - I'm on my way to yours to wave at you

Of course it might have been that he was trying to cop off with you....

Jamie - have you got a fiat punto then?

it was a 1979 van - not one of the really nice split screen ones. I loved driving it around at a slow and stately pace!

I usually get people laughing when they see my car, so no waving involved really. YANBU, he sounds like a knobber.

I thought it was just something Mini and Beetle owners did

Oenopod Ours is a 1986. Not very cool at all, but we love it

Have just been to a VW show - some beauties there ...

YABU.

My first car was a Fiat 127. Fellow drivers always used to wave or nod at each other on the rare occasions that our paths crossed.

Unfortunately, the model was so rare that it was forever having spare parts stolen from it in the dead of night.

I bought a Smart car a few years ago, and was most put out that most fellow owners would not give you the time of day.

Hahaha! I've never seen or heard of this!
But I don't drive, so not part of any waving club!

I had a 2CV and other 2CV owners always waved - was kind of nice. I also owned a Volvo 480 (sporty coupe thing) and other owners used to flip the pop-up headlights at me but you never saw many so it was a novelty.

Skoda Fabia Man sounds like a knob and a bit of a nutter.

It could be because your in a skoda though. as in a car thats part of the vag group, my Dh is very sad, bless him, and feels a connection to all VW drivers, and then this has been extended to the 'vag group'. very odd in my opinion but seems a growing trend. mini to mini, beetle to beetle, camper to camper acceptable, random car than is produced under an umbrella company is the next big thing....

I get waved at when driving my little sports car but not by other people driving the same car as it's a bit too old and rare to meet many others. But just by other people in classics or drivers of modern cars sometimes. Occasionally kids by the side of the road will wave too. It's never happened whilst I've been driving my bog standard modern estate so I know it isn't that I've got a striking resemblance to the Queen or anything.

I do think that there is quite a big skoda owners club. Maybe he was trying to sign you up as a new recruit? Did he have a beard?

Shelling - Yes I had 2cv too and this happened
And I had a Standard 10 and other classic car drivers gave a nod.
Never in a 'normal' car though. That's just weird.

at 'did he have a beard?' Probably wears socks and sandals in the summer too.

lol at the waving!
The emergency services tend to wave to each other when passing, and sometimes when im in my own car i forget and wave at a passing ambulance

When I had an MG roadster (1969, cream leather, walnut works, sigh) other mg drivers would invariably wave, toot and flash. I always did the same back because I am a sheeple

Always thought it was just some sort of weirdo classic car unwritten rule thingy!

only ever had this when i drove a Classic Mini Cooper (British Racing Green, lots of chrome, 4 front lights, white roof - god i loved that car!!)

It happens to us in our Fiat Multipla, but they are quite unusual looking and relatively uncommon (very easy to spot in a car park when i have forgotten where I left it.

They tend to be driven by people who like to be a bit different but are sensible with it, a bit like Lib Dem supporters, oh dear I'm making myself sound very uncool... cool is over-rated anyway.

Happened to me too when I had a very unique antique car, also happens with other motorcyclists when we ride DH's Harley Davidson.

BUT I think YANBU to have chosen not to wave, and the man who followed you sounds like a bit frieky, tbh. Must have been a little scary to have someone turn around and follow you. Odd.

when we had an mg this happened, but not in a 'normal' car.

i was bemused recetly when i was getting petrol & at the pump next to me someone pulled up with the same make of car & started chatting with 'don't you just love your ...'. I barely even notice a make of cra, unless it's something special. i feel no bond with people who have the same kind of car.

Bunny, not sure what part of America you've been to where people do this, I'm American and from Florida, maybe I missed out...