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How do you gracefully acknowledge if some minor infringement is your fault? Waving an open palm, with fingers spread, used to be recommended but this seemed to be interpreted as a rude sign, the last time I tried it.
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Shouting "watch what you are doing, you idiot" seems the usual way..:-)
Me, I don;t make mistooks...
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On the very rare occasion that I make a cock up on the road, I'll just hold my hand up, but with the pinkies closed.
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I just hold my hand up with both fingers open.
(kidding)
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Make everything the other guys fault, blow your horn and make obscene gestures.
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[When] I make a cock up on the road, I'll just hold my hand up...
Better that than the other way round.
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"Waving an open palm, with fingers spread, used to be recommended"
Definitely not recommended if you travel in Greece where it will be interpreted as the worst possible insult. That why they wave with that funny closed hand gesture
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edit: while steering with knees obviously
Last edited by: Lygonos on Wed 16 Jan 13 at 17:30
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Never apologise, never explain.
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Several useful suggestions - if I want to generate road rage and possibly assault.
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I usually just zoom off.
Never wait 10 seconds and then scratch your head.
I see so many people do that.
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Gestures to express apology for mistakes or clumsiness, and thanks for considerate treatment, come naturally to me and usually seem to work. I make such signals to drivers and pedestrians.
Hand-waves of various kinds, usually inside the car, facial mugging and sometimes the use of hazard flashers or headlamp flasher. People may misunderstand them sometimes but so far they haven't taken dangerous offence.
I notice sometimes when people boorishly fail to thank me for considerate driving, but it doesn't annoy me much. Some people simply are boorish. Pedestrians are the worst, but in their case there is often an ideological component, stupid carphounds.
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If i make a mistake I smile and put my hands up.If a driver let's me go by I thank him by waving my hand or in the dark flash my light.
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Clasp your hand with thumb touching your finger & other fingers in same position and wave it up and down vertically franticaly at the person intended. :-)
The five knuckle shuffle always gets there attention.
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Making a knuckle not a good idea! Reminds me of a small incident I had down south leaving a petrol stattion in the H Jazz.I reversed from the pump and a four by four kept blowing his horn.I acknowledged and put my hand up.The passenger a lady put her two fingers up at me and i returned the gesture.They drove on for a few hundred yards and stopped the car blocking the exit from the petrol station.The driver got out a big lad and I exspected problems.At the same time a VW Golf driver blew his horn at the driver blocking the road a stocky caracter got out his car and the big lad who was going to have a go at me run back to his car.The stocky lad smiled at me young lad in his thirties saved me .>:)
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Saying sorry - madf
