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06-23-2008, 12:27 PM | #1 |
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What ever happened to the "wave?"
I have noticed over the past few years that more and more people do not wave. Why is that? On Saturday we were coming on the back side of bear and saw a small boat crossing from the mainland. I slowed and let the boat have the right of way. No wave or anything.
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06-23-2008, 12:36 PM | #2 |
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We still wave at EVERY boat we pass on the lake ...
but not everyone returns the wave. Used to be everyone waved when out on boats. Its a sign of the times - all about me me me - and who cares about the rest!
Same thing can be said about the country roads of Vermont. Back in the "good ole days" we'd head up to our families place on Lake Champlain and we'd get off the highway at Burlington and weave our way up to St Alabans along the back roads and along route 7 and everyone walking along the roads would wave at us. I'd ask my dad who these people were - and how did we know them?" He'd simply say - "they are just friendly people" - and he'd wave right back at them! Not many people walking anymore along those roads (we were just up recently.) Some of the older ones still wave - but not nearly everyone!! Those days are gone.... The world is just a less friendly place. |
06-23-2008, 12:38 PM | #3 |
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Sounds like a poll question to me!!
Hey cowisl,
Here's one vote for.....i always wave! lp |
06-23-2008, 12:52 PM | #4 |
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I always wave as well. It goes so far that my brother in law asked if I knew everyone, but I told him boaters wave to everyone.
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06-23-2008, 01:54 PM | #5 |
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There was a commercial on TV in the last few years where a family was waving at everyone -- from the car, in the supermarket, to people they didn't know, etc, etc... It was a commercial to promote boating.
Real boaters wave. People borrowing other people's boats return blank looks... |
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06-23-2008, 02:26 PM | #6 |
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It is getting to the point now that people will look the other way just so that they do not have to wave. Some times I can get a little obnoxious and keep waving
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06-23-2008, 02:49 PM | #7 |
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Real boaters wave. People borrowing other people's boats return blank looks...
We became boaters about 7 years ago. I was amazed when people would wave at us. I had no idea that it was a long-standing custom, sort of like a "Jeep wave". I now wave when I'm out on the boat. Almost everyone smiles and waves back, especially the children. It's great. |
06-23-2008, 02:57 PM | #8 |
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I usually wave or nod, but lately have succumbed to using the middle finger for the countless morons that do not know what 150' is.
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06-23-2008, 03:00 PM | #9 |
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I'll generally nod my head or wave if I'm passing close-enough to another boat where you can make out facial features. This is generally when LESS than 150', as in when going through the Weirs channel, etc.
I wouldn't mind waving at more people, but it seems to get a bit distracting from keeping a proper lookout... |
06-23-2008, 03:50 PM | #10 |
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The captain of another boat waved
to me the other day as he was speeding through the no wake zone by Trexler's. The only problem is his wave was in response to my universal "slow down" hand signal. He was ignorant of the law, but he was friendly
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06-23-2008, 04:23 PM | #12 |
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Hate to make it a local/tourist issue,but most locals look you right in the eye and nod or speak as you pass.When the summer people show up,many of them deliberately glance away so as not to make eye contact.Must be a city thing....not knowing if some weirdo is going to snap or start following you.
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06-23-2008, 04:30 PM | #13 |
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I'd have to agree more with kjbathe than samiam. It really is a "boating thing". I'm not a local, but I wave to everyone I pass. Just happy to be out on the boat enjoying something I love and glad to see others probably feeling the same way. Incidentally, I'm from the Boston area, where some the rudest people on the planet live, and when I'm boating out on Boston Harbor, most people wave back there too.
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06-23-2008, 04:34 PM | #14 |
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p.s. - I remember that boating commercial. It was really funny !!! I knew the commercial was for something boating related as soon as i saw it.
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06-23-2008, 04:53 PM | #15 |
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Yep, growing up on the lake we always waved and everyone. but everyone, waved back. Now, I am surprise if half wave back so I don't bother any more, which makes me sad. If someone waves, I wave back though and figure they must be old time boaters on the lake, or just friendly. However, what amazes me is when you are going slow, are eye to eye and you wave because you are staring at each other, and they don't wave back!
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06-23-2008, 05:10 PM | #16 |
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BEST Wave
A couple of years back, I was leaving West alton Marina. While going through the channel between the sand bars, two young woman saluted every boat that passed, with similar results as what has happened to the wave. I stood up, saluted back, and was immediately rewarded with the two of them flashing thier ****. As the years have gone by those two women have become cuter every year. Just a memory. Dont want to hear whether it was appropriate or not, People just having fun.
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06-23-2008, 05:57 PM | #17 |
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Note to self: practice salute.
I am a hard core motorcyclist and I have noticed that as the weather warms and the occasional bikers come out, the wavebacks decrease. Every biker waves back in NH, in January... |
06-23-2008, 06:38 PM | #18 |
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Big Wave
I wave all the time and find that most of the boaters I wave to, either wave back or nod. The wave is still strong on the big lake!
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Now you have to admit that if you waved at every biker passing you by over the past week or so you'd spend your entire day doing nothing but waving.
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'Course, I avoid bike week like the plague. I like to ride at a spirited pace, alone. Bike week just clogs the good roads with slow moving clusters of bikes and the boring roads with stopped clusters of bikes. Instead, I rode my bicycle with my wife and kids in beautiful Dunstable, Pepperal, Groton, and Ayer MA over the weekend. |
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06-24-2008, 10:34 AM | #23 |
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I always make a habit to wave, to blondes with DD's! Plus I blow them a kiss!
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