acknowledgement

laurieoz · Senior Member

RE: acknowledgement

jules47 · The Happy Helper

native pepper wrote:
jules47 wrote:

Native Pepper -We wave to everyone - sometimes in quite a silly fashion - and have never, not even once, had anyone do a uturn to follow us to a campspot, unless they are friends who are lost!!!!

What do you have that we don't?????????????
You must have read someone else's post, it happened once on an outback road/track and they were lost as to what to do. It was getting near dark, they were a very long way from any form of civilisation, had badly misjudged the time it would take them, so when we came by they turned round and followed us to where we stopped and camped. They were really nice people, but were out of their depth in the environment. That was once in more than 45 years of travelling and also covers the rest of my post, which has occurred on a number of occasions as they had seen us camped somewhere else and figured we would be stopping soon as it was getting on in the day. They haven't turned around, just picked us up along the road or in a town. We don't go that fast on the roads we travel, so caravans mostly catch us up and there have been times they don't pass, but sit behind to see where we are going to stop. I'm sure it's not a unique experience for us, probably quite common.

Sorry NP - was a bit confusing - had Delta18 wrote - Native Pepper wrote - not hard to confuse me!!!!!!!!

Kooroorinya Kelpie · Senior Member

Hi all. As we do most of our travelling on outback roads, and only go near cities/ larger towns when there is no alternative, I wave to everyone coming towards me and will even poke my hand out the window to give an overtaking vehicle a wave. I am the sort of bloke who says g'day to anybody when I am walking through a town, It costs zilch to say g'day and. regardless of whether they reply or not. you have acknowledged their presence and treated them as an equal. The further you get from cities/major centres the friendlier people seem to be and are more likely to reply. It does have its down side occasionally when the person you've said g'day to thinks you are a long lost friend or some sort of receptacle for useless information or, worse still, insist on telling you all about their latest medical misadventures including a 20 minute,blow by blow account of their recent surgery. Like a g'day a wave costs nothing and could even put a smile on someones face when they really don't feel like smiling. I reckon anybody who is too lousy to wave is the sort of person who stands at the exit to Maccas or KFC and asks the people coming out if they want their fingers licked. Cheers.

oldbobsbus · Guru

I'm a bit like you Kelpie, I just can't slip into town for a part without getting held up by the tongue..

What should take 5 mins usually takes an hour or 3.. smile

Never mind I get to catch up on whats going on around the place..lol..