What happened to the “Wave”?

[OldHiker]

I am currently into about 2,800 miles of an estimated 4,000 mile road trip. My wife and I started out March 12th in the leftovers of a slushy snowstorm. Really messed the truck up. All the way down 95 and A1A to Key West with several stops along the way. I am presently in Atlanta for some sight seeing.

I can count the return waves on ONE finger! Where is the camaraderie? When I drive my Vette, everyone waves regardless of year or model. What’s up with this?

What do you do?

[OldHiker]

I am currently into about 2,800 miles of an estimated 4,000 mile road trip. My wife and I started out March 12th in the leftovers of a slushy snowstorm. Really messed the truck up. All the way down 95 and A1A to Key West with several stops along the way. I am presently in Atlanta for some sight seeing.

I can count the return waves on ONE finger! Where is the camaraderie? When I drive my Vette, everyone waves regardless of year or model. What’s up with this?

What do you do?

[Dug]

I just returned from a 4000 mile trip from Maine to Nashville Tenn. to Florida and back to Maine. I've never seen so many hummers on the road compared to Maine where there isnt many . Myself , wifey , and kids all waved to every hummer we saw. I bet we saw 50 to 60 h2's and not one waved back. I dont know what happened to the "Wave". Hell , here at home we wave to someone in a Datsun B210 just to be friendly.

[Andy C]

If you had waved at me while you were passing through Fort Lauderdale I would have waved back - oh wait I dont have a Hummer anymore.

[DennisAJC]

There are 5 digits per hand. Counting how many fingers I recieved this past month, I'd say I recieved a total of 4 waves. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

On the serious side, whenever I see an H2 with 22" rims all blinged out, I get sick and embarrased to be even near it let alone wave at it.

[Klaus]

Consider yourself waved to by a local!

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/anmtnsFR/handwav1.gif

Welcome to Atlanta. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[jgmachine]

never get waves in the H2. only in the vette...

[alldunn]

I meet an H1 almost every morning on the way to work and the guy always waves. The pricks in the H2s never wave.

[H2Finally]

My theory is that so many H2 owners are harrassed, that they have all become ingrained with the need to be defensive -- even against other H2 owners! http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

In 13 months of ownership, got waived TWICE, and flashed back <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">(high-beam! you perverts..)</pre> ONCE.

I have given up.

[OldHiker]

Thanks, Klaus. Now I can say I have two waves.

[xonxoff]

I pass a Black H2 about 4 times a week. I would wave and nothing in return. After about 2 weeks he has caught on. He even waves first. Maybe he is also passing it on. At least it is a start.

[Arizona Hummerboy]

I am in Phoenix, and I get Waves from the Owners of H1 then from H2.

[FreeorDie2]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">never get waves in the H2. only in the vette... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I noticed the same thing this past weekend. I actually saw 3 other H2s and not one waved. I was really shocked. Never met or passed another Prowler owner who didn't act like he or she was kin, let alone wave.

[HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ]

I do not know if it is just red neck or what but in Arkansas anything with big tires waves at each other. H2 owners will drive across a parking lot to say Hi to another H2. I guess I have it good hear in central AR. I went to a Kolh's this afternoon and was driving off and a lady, Her Mom, the ladies daughter, and the lady had her baby came running from there 03 H2 Maroon to say Hi to Me as I stopped at the little stop signs on the cross walk to the store. They wanted to see all the bling and remembered seeing Me at the state contest I won so I just told them hang on a minute and I'll pull in the empty spot and we just all talked up until the little girl not baby exactly had to go potty. well that broke up the visit and the lady told Me the business they owned just up the road and was going to tell her husband that She asked Me to come by and see Him so She could make a wish list of things she wanted.It was nice but, I have had the few bad times but are rare at least. so i guess i can report that there are areas where it is not so bad.
TAZ

[KenP]

The problem is all H2 owners are stuck up. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif They never wave. I see this guy with a white H1 often and he always waves. BTW, I need to get a pic of his truck. It's always muddy, has 37's, I think, and a roof rack with lights.

[tower]

I am NOT stuck up! I always have my driver wave at other hummers.

[FreeorDie2]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I do not know if it is just red neck or what but in Arkansas anything with big tires waves at each other. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You might have a point. . .Up here in the northeast, people tend to be pricks -- I think without even meaning to be. Having lived all over the country, I can vouch for the fact that people in the south and west are generally friendlier. In fact. . .here in the Boston area, when people wave at you it's normally with just one finger.

[devilsfan]

I never get the wave (or headlight flash) first. Never. But I always get a wave or flash in return when I take the initiative....I'm making a point lately to be a little more friendly to other H2 owners. I'm hoping it will catch on.

Stacy

[mstams]

I used to get waves from H2 owners when I drove the H1. Now in my SUT, I get no more waves... http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[Battlebugs]

Yup, I flashed at least four other H2s and an H1 on I-35 between OKC and Wichita, Kansas TUE/WED, not one made any effort. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[ROX]

I wave whenever I see another Hummer. Rarely, does anyone wave back. Except one guy! he keeps flipping me the finger that Drty......!

[Hart1]

Well, its confession time for me. I was driving down to Morongo to play a little Texas Hold'em, and I was so caught-up in the experience of driving my new H2, that a SUT approached from the opposite direction and waved, however, I did not realized this until it was too late to wave back. I felt like **** for about two seconds, until the thrill of driving my H2 kicked back in....I was bad.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Really messed the truck up </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Can you elaborate?

[OldHiker]

Actually received a wave when we stopped for lunch somewhere in Tennessee. After I blinked my lights several times and stuck my hand in front of the windshield did he wave. Almost looked annoyed!

[RasterMaster]

Almost always get waves here and usually wave first...but understand if they can't wave in heavy traffic. It's not like you'd mistake the H2 for anything else! Well, maybe a Brinks truck in the dark. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

It's the occasional female scream "I LOVE YOUR HUMMER!" that I haven't been able to get used to.

[LasVegas]

Don't wave in Las Vegas. Too busy dodging crazy California drivers. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[wch3]

Depends what you classify as a wave. In CT and the most of the northeast, H2s are not a common truck -- not as much as Suburbans and Escalades. However, most H2 owners will wave to each other if their men. This wave possessing all five digits, moving from left to right. I've waved to women driving H2s only to receive a do-I-know-you look or no look because she's got a cell phone attached to the ear -- a very dangerous situation in the making. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

However, the other type of wave that is very common at least in CT is one that contains the one digit, usually the thumb, in a pointed down motion.

A women, less restrained, gave my wife the other one-fingured wave when my wife was dropping off our kids to school. Upon my wife's way back from the school she encountered the same woman who had smashed the front of her car into the side of someonelse's vehicle. My wife naturally and kindly gave the woman a five-fingered wave as she passed the acccident, which the woman had clearly caused.

[JamesT]

I get an interesting wave though it happens mostly at night. Since mine is lifted about 8" over stock and I have the Xeon headlights, many times when I stop behind people they do two interesting things. First, they adjust their rear view mirrors then they wave at me. Not you the traditional wave, but an odd, sort of abriviated wave using one finger. Hmmmmmmm. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Phil....you too shall see this odd human behavior soon when yours is lifted.

[Big Z]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I was driving down to Morongo to play a little Texas Hold'em </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You the one that caught up to me, (Dirty Red Hummer) waving just before you got to Morongo! http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I've been playing a fair amount of hold'um there also! Going out again today!

[tower]

Here in Los Angeles, despite the crowding, people are aching to connect. They are also driven by the social norm to be cool. I have developed what I believe to be the quintessential wave for this part of the country.

When I see another Hummer (H anything) I ordinarily already have my left hand out the window. Upon approach, I extend the left index finger toward them, maintaining an angle just slightly below horizontal. This is similar to animals showing submission to a more dominant conspecific (a kind of “you da man” gesture). It gives acknowledgement, yet shows humility. So far, I haven't been fired on by the "pimp my ride" crowd. Additionally, if there is no acknowledgement from the other driver, the gesture is subtle enough so that I can act as though I was merely stretching my finger, thereby maintaining the cool factor. Very bad form in L.A. to say "Hi" first and not be acknowledged.

(Please don't take this too seriously.)

[Tully]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by JamesT:
I get an interesting wave though it happens mostly at night. Since mine is lifted about 8" over stock and I have the Xeon headlights, many times when I stop behind people they do two interesting things. First, they adjust their rear view mirrors then they wave at me. Not you the traditional wave, but an odd, sort of abriviated wave using one finger. Hmmmmmmm. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Phil....you too shall see this odd human behavior soon when yours is lifted. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


I must say unfortunately, 'Hummer Lights', as I call them...occur often...when driving in my 'regular car' pre-Hummer it would DRIVE ME INSANE how retarded people drive to get around you, in front of you, etc...literally go against traffic lines/laws/common sense to do so....for whatever rush they are in because you end up behind them at THE NEXT LIGHT ANYWAY!!! retards...anyway...i'm fairly conscience of the fact that the H2 is higher up than most cars and the lights are definitely higher than most trucks...so I try to stay a few feet off of peoples rear bumpers at night to not blind them...as a courtsey...but those people...the ones i reference before hand...if the can FINALLY get around me ( big rig - for some reason it takes up a LOOOOTTTT of space and is not easy to get around or cut off - especially w/ a little bit of help from the driver... )....

anyway...when they do finally get around me...I pull up, as I would have in any other vehicle...right on their bumper and give them the....

DISTINCT HONOR AND PLEASE OF "HUMMER LIGHTS"

*fine print:typically followed by a deep, long and repetitive Star Wars Emperor like laugh....to which passengers of my ride often roll their eyes.... http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Tully]

Ok, so I took a drive today...passed 2 other H2's during the trip to the driving range...waved at both of them ( one woman and one man )...neither waved back or even noticed my truck for that matter...errr...the most emotion I got was from my @sshole buddy who was riding co-pilot...he laughed and called me a 'fag' ....after which I proceeded to make him my byotch http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[dochummer]

Drove through oregon on saturday and I would say that 7/10 vehicles I passed waived to me in the heppner area. My guess, maybe there is someone in the area that owns an h2, and everyone thought I was him. Stopped to get directions from a couple of farmers out in the field, the guy walked up and said "I've never seen a hummer before." http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[ree]

Of the few, H2 drivers I see around, they must be pricks (except me). I get most of my waves from the local cops, others in town who recognize me by my vehicle, bikers (not the environmentally concious kinds), truckers, and other non-H2 4x4 drivers, and the guy who has an H1 across town.

But most of all, middle school aged boys at the local schools and on the school buses. Boy do they love seeing my ride.

[Salt Lake City HUMMER]

does any body else get the finger from little kids, I dont know what I did but everywhere I go kids age 6 to 16 give me the finger. i dunno. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[h2co-pilot]

http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif LOL, maybe they're telling you you're #1?

[Salt Lake City HUMMER]

maybe i should return the favor to them !?

[devilsfan]

I get the opposite. Kids love my truck - I passed by a group of teenage stoners the other day who actually STOOD up and started cheering as I went by. That could be due to the drugs tho...

All the kids on my block are fascinated with my truck. Our 7 yr old neighbor has one of the larger remote control yellow H2s....when he's done playing with it, he parks it next to mine in the driveway. http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Adults are the nasty ones. I wonder where they cross the line from enjoyment that such a cool vehicle exists to hatred and jealousy? Must be those liberal arts colleges.

Stacy

[OldHiker]

So now that I am back home, after over 4000 miles from New York to Key West to Oak Ridge, TN and back home again, my count stays the same.

I am convinced that most H2 owners are snobs who think their poop don't stink.

Present company excepted.

[Dug]

oldhiker- Try one of these they might not wave , but they'll look.

[h2co-pilot]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by oldhiker:
So now that I am back home, after over 4000 miles from New York to Key West to Oak Ridge, TN and back home again, my count stays the same.

I am convinced that most H2 owners are snobs who think their poop don't stink.

Present company excepted. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

My poop doesn't stink! http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif But I would wave, I wave to most everybody no matter what vehicle I'm in on a residential street. I've heard from Jeepers that the wave was dwindling in that vehicle as well. The boaters have a good thing going.