Horny people…
How many times have you been peacefully cruising in your lane, enjoying the sunny day only to be rudely disturbed by constant sound of a nincompoop playing symphony using their vehicles horn?
It seems some people love their horns and think they are musicians in a concert performing in front of a crowd of millions. Even after years of observing these nuts on wheels, I have still not been able to find out why they are acting in this manner!
From honking despite having no traffic in their lanes to honking at red light or for that matter in miles long traffic jams, these people are every where. And its not that they belong to specific economic section or class, one can see any one from rickshaw pullers to the owners of swanking new luxury car engaged in this activity. Strange as it may sound, till date I haven’t seen a trucker engaged in such preposterous activity.
I still remember when I used to go to a local market along with a friend of mine, any one visiting that market knew they would reach faster if they were walking than in/on a vehicle. Still there were some smart people who thought that by playing their horns they can make traffic in front of them disappear. While it never used to work, my friend had a habit of teaching these smart people a lesson, he would park our bike to the side to give that smartass a chance to overtake and then he would give them a taste of their own medicine by treating them to the front row seats of concert by pulsars twin horns. Not that I condone what my friend used to do, but seeing people get a taste of their tactic used to be fun.
In the end, while some might be expressing their frustration and some might be doing it to use all the features they paid for, for me it is nothing but a form of road rage! So if you are one of those who love to announce their arrival in this manner, remember you are irritating other road users and it is only time you meet your equal or worse a person even more psychotic than you!
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Man… A really well written article….. but what i think is these ‘horny ppl’ have it in thier blood…. if they have to stop of slow down.. thier reflex action is to honk…….
In a country like india,there are so many pigheaded people are driving on the road without no sense of fellow commuters.so you have no other way,other than using the horn to make yourway.
I use horn a lot,not bcoz i like using it,but to make way.or else someone will taking in mobile while driving car,or someone maybe staring the hoardings or posters,or maybe chatting with billion rider.
In india sensitive people are less in numbers.atleast on the road.
er … ahem … I allow myself to be dragged into the courtroom here and be accused to being a ‘Horny Person’ myself (not in more ways than one, mind you
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I use the horn, while touring or while riding in some sorta formation to convey pre-defined signals. Phew, managed to crawl outta that one.
Another use of the horn, a criminal offense this time, is teaching a lesson to other horny people in probably the same fashion as the Ed’s friend. See, what irritates me is that people in this country learn to use the horn before the learn to drive. Let’s be honest here, how many times have you visited a showroom and are in the process of being brainwashed by the sales guy, that you have heard a horn go off ?
Also, beg to differ on the trucker’s point with Ed. I have heard the most annoying horns used by truckers. They try to go all musical but and up sounding like Cacaphonix (read Astrix and Obelix ?). Some have horns installed in them made for the sole purpose of scaring the bajeeses out of a person. They are loud and full of threat. Not surprisingly, the trucks which usually have these horns, have the quietest engines and love to sneak up on you while you are trying to look for the bag of chips lying around somewhere in the car .
While we are on the topic, how about discussing the clutch/brake padel noise which is usually the Dhoom Machale song ?