The wave gone
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08
Originally Posted by VetterGetIt
Yeah there's all those reasons and I'm relatively new and this subject is getting old but,
SAVE THE WAVE, THIS IS AMERICA AND BE PROUD!!
We of the Corvette Forum must remember that the Corvette is special, and the thinking of who cares about the wave is just another example of how today's society can wear down important time-honored traditions such as: Dinner at the family table, marriage, heterosexuality, honor, man-of-your-word kind of life that some of us still live bu most of the world is letting slip thru the cracks of technology and self-absorption.
Save the Wave, and save the World.
SAVE THE WAVE, THIS IS AMERICA AND BE PROUD!!
We of the Corvette Forum must remember that the Corvette is special, and the thinking of who cares about the wave is just another example of how today's society can wear down important time-honored traditions such as: Dinner at the family table, marriage, heterosexuality, honor, man-of-your-word kind of life that some of us still live bu most of the world is letting slip thru the cracks of technology and self-absorption.
Save the Wave, and save the World.
Last edited by PUREFUN; Jun 24, 2006 at 11:50 PM.
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Originally Posted by VetterGetIt
Yeah there's all those reasons and I'm relatively new and this subject is getting old but,
SAVE THE WAVE, THIS IS AMERICA AND BE PROUD!!
We of the Corvette Forum must remember that the Corvette is special, and the thinking of who cares about the wave is just another example of how today's society can wear down important time-honored traditions such as: Dinner at the family table, marriage, heterosexuality, honor, man-of-your-word kind of life that some of us still live bu most of the world is letting slip thru the cracks of technology and self-absorption.
Save the Wave, and save the World.
SAVE THE WAVE, THIS IS AMERICA AND BE PROUD!!
We of the Corvette Forum must remember that the Corvette is special, and the thinking of who cares about the wave is just another example of how today's society can wear down important time-honored traditions such as: Dinner at the family table, marriage, heterosexuality, honor, man-of-your-word kind of life that some of us still live bu most of the world is letting slip thru the cracks of technology and self-absorption.
Save the Wave, and save the World.
Would you be more offended if they waved at you or if they didn't?
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06
Originally Posted by PUREFUN
Wish i had a dollar for every wave thread
Who FN cares if someone waves or not. Did it ruin you day?
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08
Originally Posted by Zilla
Who FN cares if someone waves or not. Did it ruin you day?
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no offence to anyone but to be honest with you i think im very very close to stop waving . i waved three times this week and got no responses, i have had more waves at me 10 years ago when i had my
c4's, as a matter of fact i waved at some dude yesterday in like a 78 or 79 vette and just gave me a dirty look, but whatever , i really don't care about this wave thing no more, if they wave ill wave back, but ill never wave first ever again, i look like a moron every time especially when i have someone with me.
c4's, as a matter of fact i waved at some dude yesterday in like a 78 or 79 vette and just gave me a dirty look, but whatever , i really don't care about this wave thing no more, if they wave ill wave back, but ill never wave first ever again, i look like a moron every time especially when i have someone with me.
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The WAVE
Originally Posted by vetteguy8
no offence to anyone but to be honest with you i think im very very close to stop waving . i waved three times this week and got no responses, i have had more waves at me 10 years ago when i had my
c4's, as a matter of fact i waved at some dude yesterday in like a 78 or 79 vette and just gave me a dirty look, but whatever , i really don't care about this wave thing no more, if they wave ill wave back, but ill never wave first ever again, i look like a moron every time especially when i have someone with me.
c4's, as a matter of fact i waved at some dude yesterday in like a 78 or 79 vette and just gave me a dirty look, but whatever , i really don't care about this wave thing no more, if they wave ill wave back, but ill never wave first ever again, i look like a moron every time especially when i have someone with me.
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Lots of drivers just focus on whats ahead of them and thats it. As a Professional Driver we are taught to always scan your entire surroundings.. Also, with electronics such as cell phones, DVD players, Talk radio or whatever, people do get self absorbed to the point that they are a road hazard to others. Remember, scan don't stare. What does it do for you? Keeps you alive at intersections.. And remember to wave!!
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St. Jude Donor '06-'08
Of course those who are complaining knew what the thread was when they opened it. I guess they needed to find something wrong with the day. I suppose their motto is "we serve no whine before its time." Trouble is that for some folks its always time to whine.
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I didn't know about the wave until I was driving my vette home after I bought it. A guy in a blue C5 gave a wave and I, of course, returned one. Now, no matter what year I see, I always give a wave.
It's like our own little club on the road and I love it.
It's like our own little club on the road and I love it.
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08
Originally Posted by filmelf
Of course those who are complaining knew what the thread was when they opened it. I guess they needed to find something wrong with the day. I suppose their motto is "we serve no whine before its time." Trouble is that for some folks its always time to whine.
Just get tired of this same thread day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day
It's really becoming a 
I'll keep waving though
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From: Clanton AL
Originally Posted by chocoholic
Out of interest, what's your position on homosexual, agnostic, immigrant, Corvette owners who are living with their lifestyle partners and who regularly enjoy TV dinners?
Would you be more offended if they waved at you or if they didn't?
Would you be more offended if they waved at you or if they didn't?
I think that live and let live, but if you think for a moment that America is not dissolving its moral fibers with no sense of right and wrong, or no sense ofhonor because of these kinds of lifestyles impacts children in a negative way (not all the time but most, there are exceptions of every rule), then you are mistaken. This country was founded on values, integrity, hardwork, God, and blood, and so was Rome. See any connections? We let the vette wave die because some of the members are tired of not being waved at, then we are letting a symbolic hand-signal of brotherhood fall to the wayside withthe other great traditions already mentioned. Along with apple pie and baseball. If fathers stop watching baseball with their sons it too would die. If we (the wavers) stop waving, then no one else will wave. I say wave and don't get butt-hurt if the other person doesn't, because truly they are missing out.
chocoholic, I am a little defensive to your post, it seems you are trying to say I'm a narrow-minded bigot, but I'm not. I just speak the truth as I see it. Kids left at home with MTV and the internet-**** are gonna be less focused on successful endeavors and more on gettin laid and high (most of the time, again exceptions to the rule).
Last edited by VetterGetIt; Jun 25, 2006 at 03:56 PM.
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08
Originally Posted by VetterGetIt
I think that live and let live, but if you think for a moment that America is not dissolving its moral fibers with no sense of right and wrong, or no sense ofhonor because of these kinds of lifestyles impacts children in a negative way (not all the time but most, there are exceptions of every rule), then you are mistaken. This country was founded on values, integrity, hardwork, God, and blood, and so was Rome. See any connections? We let the vette wave die because some of the members are tired of not being waved at, then we are letting a symbolic hand-signal of brotherhood fall to the wayside withthe other great traditions already mentioned. Along with apple pie and baseball. If fathers stop watching baseball with their sons it too would die. If we (the wavers) stop waving, then no one else will wave. I say wave and don't get butt-hurt if the other person doesn't, because truly they are missing out.
chocoholic, I am a little defensive to your post, it seems you are trying to say I'm a narrow-minded bigot, but I'm not. I just speak the truth as I see it. Kids left at home with MTV and the internet-**** are gonna be less focused on successful endeavors and more on gettin laid and high (most of the time, again exceptions to the rule).
chocoholic, I am a little defensive to your post, it seems you are trying to say I'm a narrow-minded bigot, but I'm not. I just speak the truth as I see it. Kids left at home with MTV and the internet-**** are gonna be less focused on successful endeavors and more on gettin laid and high (most of the time, again exceptions to the rule).
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I went for a ride today as well. I saw only one other Corvette, a DSOM C6. I waved. He waved back. I'm 100% on waves today! 
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From: Clanton AL
Originally Posted by PUREFUN
I wonder if you had a son or daughter that died in Iraq, if you had a son or daughter that was gay, or what if the first owners of corvettes never waved at each other. Would your views be just a little different. Probably not....
I don't really understand what you are saying to me. I believe people should live as they want to provided they do it discreetly and without disrupting the community (anarchy type stuff). I have nothing against gays( I lived in New Orleans, so I know gay people, and they can be fun and great people, however it is a debauchery lifetstyle for the most part) and I fully support our military, so again I AM NOT BASHING AND/OR judging people. It's just this country needs to get back to basics, like when your neighbor returned you tools without asking him, or people will return your wallet with ALL the money in it. I'm that kind of guy, and I believe in the golden rule.
If you are gonna respond to a serious post, how about making yourself plain? Last thing I want to do on the Corvette Forum (most mature forum of which Im a member) is start an argument on politics. So if you think I said something wrong, then actually tell me what it is. And if you are agreeing with me then say so.
Bottom Line- Keep waving, keep saying thank you and please, hold open the door for women, respect your elders, and try to teach the kids of this country work ethics and honesty.
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From: Clanton AL
Originally Posted by chocoholic
Out of interest, what's your position on homosexual, agnostic, immigrant, Corvette owners who are living with their lifestyle partners and who regularly enjoy TV dinners?
Would you be more offended if they waved at you or if they didn't?
Would you be more offended if they waved at you or if they didn't?
No I wouldn't be offended, I would just wave. I don't judge or look down my noses at people. I think as a whole the country's morals are dissolving. That's all Im trying to say./discussion, this is c5 general, not the OT section.
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08
Originally Posted by VetterGetIt
I don't really understand what you are saying to me. I believe people should live as they want to provided they do it discreetly and without disrupting the community (anarchy type stuff). I have nothing against gays( I lived in New Orleans, so I know gay people, and they can be fun and great people, however it is a debauchery lifetstyle for the most part) and I fully support our military, so again I AM NOT BASHING AND/OR judging people. It's just this country needs to get back to basics, like when your neighbor returned you tools without asking him, or people will return your wallet with ALL the money in it. I'm that kind of guy, and I believe in the golden rule.
If you are gonna respond to a serious post, how about making yourself plain? Last thing I want to do on the Corvette Forum (most mature forum of which Im a member) is start an argument on politics. So if you think I said something wrong, then actually tell me what it is. And if you are agreeing with me then say so.
Bottom Line- Keep waving, keep saying thank you and please, hold open the door for women, respect your elders, and try to teach the kids of this country work ethics and honesty.
If you are gonna respond to a serious post, how about making yourself plain? Last thing I want to do on the Corvette Forum (most mature forum of which Im a member) is start an argument on politics. So if you think I said something wrong, then actually tell me what it is. And if you are agreeing with me then say so.
Bottom Line- Keep waving, keep saying thank you and please, hold open the door for women, respect your elders, and try to teach the kids of this country work ethics and honesty.
And here is a wave for ya...
Last edited by PUREFUN; Jun 25, 2006 at 05:45 PM.
Drifting
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Cool. I know I'm not crazy and I sleep really well at night. I love your wave.
Out of curiosity, what was the disagreement you had with my first comments? I was trying to say the same thing. Was my wording not right?
Just to set matters right, I'm not pissed if I wave and someone else doesn't (unless they look at me and act assholish). I am an easy goin man. But I really dig old values, it does my heart good when I see people treating each other right. Im 29 (30 in Aug) BTW. So I'm pretty young, just think like an old guy.
Out of curiosity, what was the disagreement you had with my first comments? I was trying to say the same thing. Was my wording not right?
Just to set matters right, I'm not pissed if I wave and someone else doesn't (unless they look at me and act assholish). I am an easy goin man. But I really dig old values, it does my heart good when I see people treating each other right. Im 29 (30 in Aug) BTW.
So I'm pretty young, just think like an old guy.
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Originally Posted by VetterGetIt
I don't really understand what you are saying to me. I believe people should live as they want to provided they do it discreetly and without disrupting the community (anarchy type stuff). I have nothing against gays( I lived in New Orleans, so I know gay people, and they can be fun and great people, however it is a debauchery lifetstyle for the most part) and I fully support our military, so again I AM NOT BASHING AND/OR judging people. It's just this country needs to get back to basics, like when your neighbor returned you tools without asking him, or people will return your wallet with ALL the money in it. I'm that kind of guy, and I believe in the golden rule.
If you are gonna respond to a serious post, how about making yourself plain? Last thing I want to do on the Corvette Forum (most mature forum of which Im a member) is start an argument on politics. So if you think I said something wrong, then actually tell me what it is. And if you are agreeing with me then say so.
Bottom Line- Keep waving, keep saying thank you and please, hold open the door for women, respect your elders, and try to teach the kids of this country work ethics and honesty.
If you are gonna respond to a serious post, how about making yourself plain? Last thing I want to do on the Corvette Forum (most mature forum of which Im a member) is start an argument on politics. So if you think I said something wrong, then actually tell me what it is. And if you are agreeing with me then say so.
Bottom Line- Keep waving, keep saying thank you and please, hold open the door for women, respect your elders, and try to teach the kids of this country work ethics and honesty.
I'm with you 100%. I'm only 26, but my generation is so clueless about real American/Family values, it can be real depressing. As a fellow Corvette Owner, I wave at EVERY Vette I see. I even wave at motorcyclists. My dad's owned 15 corvettes since 1969, served 20 years in the Navy as an officer, and did two tours in Vietnam. He at least made sure I had the basics down. Wish there were more people like you out there nowadays.
Yesterday going to Andy's BBQ meet, I waved to probably a dozen corvettes and got waves back from probably 9 of them. The others probably didn't see me, but with the crazy traffic nowadays, I'd rather they watch the road than wreck their babies.
Keep the wave alive!