Rant: Gotta love them drivers that honk at you for no good reason.

[Ricemarine]

Pretty much, I'm driving on the I-5 freeway that's always having traffic jams, and I'm driving on the farthest right lane to exit, but its also flowing with the traffic. So, along the way, some car starts honking at me even though I am about 1-2 carlengths away from the car in front of me. When I'm in the exit ramp, there's a bunch of cars also waiting to enter the street, so this car keeps honking and on the same ramp as me. HONK HONK... I scoot up a car space, HONK HONK... This car honks at me 6+ times...

Then I finally decide to look in the mirror, and its a beat up white ford taurus with a broken front grill that looked like it was in several accidents or something...

So I chuckled and drove off in my safe manner.

Cliffs:
-Car honks at me for no reason
-I look back and the car is a beat up POS.

 

[mugs]

He was warning you about the serial killer in your back seat. You're dead now and posting from hell (a.k.a. P&N)

 

[olds]

 

[SonnyDaze]

An old friend who just had an accident and needed your help maybe??

 

[waggy]

i honked at you because you had the "honk if you are horny" sticker!

 

[compnovice]

You should have thrown some nails out of the window...

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: mugs
He was warning you about the serial killer in your back seat. You're dead now and posting from hell (a.k.a. P&N)

I've never posted in P&N :laugh:

 

[Supermercado]

Someone honked at me because I stopped at a red light before turning right last week. That got a big "WTF?" from me.

 

[WW]

Is it only in America that the horn is an offensive weapon? When I've been in countries like India or China, it's always kind of freaky at first because there the horn is used as a courtesy warning device (as it was intended I bet). They honk when passing another vehicle, or backing up, etc.

here if you honk, you're telling someone they screwed up, or that you're mad.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: WW
Is it only in America that the horn is an offensive weapon? When I've been in countries like India or China, it's always kind of freaky at first because there the horn is used as a courtesy warning device (as it was intended I bet). They honk when passing another vehicle, or backing up, etc.

here if you honk, you're telling someone they screwed up, or that you're mad.

This is why I disconnected one of my stock horns (so I have 1 total) and when I honk my horn it's a little toot.. or I flip a switch and 2 seperate but simultaneous air horns let the person know they really f'd up

 

[PlatinumGold]

i was at McD's going thru the drive thru, the morons in front of me, were like really really slow, they couldn't seem to find their money till after the car in front of them had already gotten their food and left.

fine, that can happen.

then they get their food, fine.

after getting their food, they decide to feed their kids AT THE FVCKING WINDOW.

they don't even bother to pull up 30 ft so the people behind them can get thru (it was about 4:30 pm and their was a big @ss line of cars.

so i honked at them to let them know, get your fvcking @ss out of the way.

after i get my stuff and as i pull past them they are yelling and cussing at me. :roll:

fvcking stupid @ssholes.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: WW
Is it only in America that the horn is an offensive weapon? When I've been in countries like India or China, it's always kind of freaky at first because there the horn is used as a courtesy warning device (as it was intended I bet). They honk when passing another vehicle, or backing up, etc.

it's good that it's used that way here. I found the honking obnoxious in China.

 

[OS]

brake check

 

[kranky]

Last week I was driving on a two-lane road with a 30mph limit, no stop signs or traffic lights. When I get to where I need to turn left, there's a car there waiting to turn left on to the road I'm on.

So I signal, and as I'm making the left, the guy sitting there blasts his horn and starts shouting at me. For some unknown reason, he felt I should have come to a stop on the main road, let HIM pull out first, and then I should turn. There weren't any cars behind me, so it's not like he wasn't going to be able to pull out.

Of course, he did have an expensive Lexus so maybe people normally do that for him. I don't know.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

In the Middle East honking means "Hey what's up?" or "Good Morning", in the US it means fvck you. First time I can actually remember being overseas I was surprised at all the honking, people over there honk when they pass by someone they know, etc., its cool .

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: WW
Is it only in America that the horn is an offensive weapon? When I've been in countries like India or China, it's always kind of freaky at first because there the horn is used as a courtesy warning device (as it was intended I bet). They honk when passing another vehicle, or backing up, etc.

here if you honk, you're telling someone they screwed up, or that you're mad.

In the US you're taught to use your horn while passing, etc, but nobody does because it is assumed to be offensive. You can honk in non-offensive ways here though. Two quick honks are considered a polite honk. A prolonged honk is offensive - the longer the honk, the more offensive. Or if you're really pissed, you can do what I call the "machine gun honk" - short, rapid honks for a prolonged time. Usually you do that one while you're passing someone, who is turning, and you don't have time for the length of prolonged honk that their offense merited. I never do that one, I think it sounds stupid.

 

[Rock Hydra]

I hate honking my horn. the only time I do it is when there's someone in front of me and they didn't notice the light turned green or something like that, that's about it.

 

[imported_goku]

Funny, I was in a parking lot that was completely packed cause a football game just ended. I was going in reverse in order to reposition the car so that I could go forward, so I look back and see a car behind me and I proceed to back out when the person clearly begins to panic and honks their horn, I just grin and back out a bit more then I finally moved forward. :laugh: It's entirely understandable as to why they did it but at the same time it's just funny.

 

[oboeguy]

Oh it's even more fun riding a bicycle to get honked at for taking a lane (within legal rights) and there's a perfectly good passing lane available with no other cars in sight. That's really fun, whether the car behind you is a POS or not!

 

[masterxfob]

ugh, if you live in Los Angeles, you pretty much have to honk your horn. here's a few reassons why i honk my horn:

1. no use of a signal when turning or randomly slowing down.
2. parking cars on major streets to pick someone up, as if emergency flashers make this alright.
3. not paying attention to the damn traffic signals.
4. not moving to the right to make a right turn so that other cars can move on by.
5. cars blocking traffic in the left lane because they have to make a right turn and they can't be bothered to go around a block.
6. double parking.
7. idiots parking in driveways that they don't belong in, as in my driveway.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Drivers in Seattle suck.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

if this happens to you frequently maybe you should look for the common denominator

 

[Shawn]

he's honking at you because you are asian. you are probably driving poorly and don't even realize it. :laugh:

 

[Bateluer]

People do that ****** to me a lot too, even though I'm not actually doing anything wrong. Usually its because I'm driving the speed limit, or because I didn't make a turn fast enough for them.

Its a little dangerous, my first impulse is to hit the breaks when people honk at me.

 

[Kadarin]

Ever thought about the fact that maybe he was honking at you for a reason?