Friendly wave

No👍🏻. It’s more not wanting to connect with folk who do things I personally don’t like nor intend to do. I accept for some it’s a pleasure-for them I’m happy👏🏻👏🏻

You could well be right there CY as this site has been full this weekend and it seems the "weekend warriors? " are very much an insular tribe ,  as apart from having the head down to use mobile phones,  there is no communication to other members who are more able to communicate by what we used to call talking face to face

Sorry but I can't see a connection being made by maybe a fleeting glance of someone travelling in the opposite direction.

A connection is made face to face, reading that person that can result into a cheery hello, or maybe one to ignore next time, or 'clicking' and becoming a short/long term friend.

But many choose to avert their eyes, pretend to be looking elsewhere when walking past you, or looking constantly at the ground in front of them. So yes in that instance, we are becoming more insular.

It may be the insular tribe are purposely cutting out the waffler tribe from stopping them every few yards to moan about weather/govt/brexit/aches & pains/dogs/use of heaters et al. I communicat with family & friends daily by using the mobile phone👍🏻😊

They may as well save their money then,  as it seems they have no idea of their surroundings ,as it not just a couple of minutes they are blind to what's going on where they are

What happened to the “live and let live “ that some members were in agreement with , I don’t really care what other folks do , wave or not ,I’m not going to pigeon hole you for doing either 

Yes, its Friendly, as long as you remain in full control of your vehicle, my wife tends to do the waving, she sometimes waves at Ambulances, White Van men , Small Coaches and even the odd Ice cream van,  some M/homers just give an 'Icy Stare' in reply...guess they are just not friendly ? Takes all kinds....we wave....no light flashing though, thats just to warn about speed camera vans..followed by a 'thumb down'.  We dont like people shooting Badgers either.

Sixty years ago my father had an RAC sticker on the car windscreen and the patrolmen would always wave when they saw it. Mind, not much traffic in those days,

You got a proper salute from the AA motorcyclists.

Many of the newcomers to "This Motoring" do not know the significance of the salute from the AA man - often on his motorcycle combination.

The point about the salute was when he did not do it.  It meant that there was a police speed trap ahead. This was seen as "obstructing the police" and the AA ended up in the High Court over it.  The rulling was that one cannot obstruct the police by NOT doing something.

That was in the days when the AA, and The Caravan Club for that matter, were actual members' clubs.