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The horn on my new van is easy to hit by mistake. It takes a very light touch to make it sound. I'm used to it now, but the first few days it was so easy to accidentally sound it. No one gave me the finger. I did try to mime "oops" so that might be why.
People use it for the wrong reasons too often. Like as they're already passing a slow driver. These are the types of people (and I hate using that phrase) who won't say anything to their face if they were just walking on the street and they were in the way. Being in a car behind metal and glass gives them big brassy ones. Way to go. Do you think making incompetent drivers more nervous gets them to go faster next time? Genius stuff.
When you're waiting for pedestrians to cross before you begin to turn and the people behind you honk it's like, "do you think I don't know how to make a turn?"
It's like being in a line and the person behind you tells you to move up. No, I've never used a line (or a car), before.
When you're waiting for pedestrians to cross before you begin to turn and the people behind you honk it's like, "do you think I don't know how to make a turn?"
It's like being in a line and the person behind you tells you to move up. No, I've never used a line (or a car), before.
Exactly. I only get offended when the horn is clearly someone saying, "gtf out of my way." This usually happens we're stuck in traffic and no one is going anywhere. Sometimes it happens like the above: you're waiting for a pedestrian, or it's unsafe to turn, etc. I get PO'd because these people are not just rude; they're obnoxious, selfish, uncivilized idiots.
If I deserved the horn honk I take it like a man. However I've had people behind me honk their horn the second the light turns green, in which case they can expect to sit where they are for a few seconds longer than if they kept their attitude in check.
Briefly tap the horn if I don't immediately move on a red light which changes to green. No problem. Maybe I'm waiting to see if a fast approaching vehicle on the cross street is stopping for its red light before I enter the intersection. But if instead you lay down hard on the horn, then I will live down to your low expectations of me as a driver. For when I drive off, I will proceed to purposely drive below the speed limit. Not wanting to put up with this, you will then have to unnecessarily change lanes to get around me.
Back when I was 18 my dad bought me a gas station, to make my living. A friend got hold of an old rail road steam engine train whistle. He brought it to me, and I put a bypass with a cut out on his exhaust system, and installed the whistle under the car. All he had to do was pull a knob on his dashboard, to sound the whistle.
Boy did that get peoples attention, when it sounded like a rail road train was going to run them down.
Growing up in Venezuela, everybody uses their horn all the time.
You can honk your horn at me all day long and it won't bother me
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