Horn OK Please

Picture this, you are riding down the road on your two-wheeler, say an Activa, Scooty, or even moped (all these in my case). You're focus is all on the road ahead. Maybe you do not want to go into a pothole, or you want to keep a safe distance from the vehicle ahead (maybe it's a lady driver or an auto guy who thinks he's an F1 driver or one confused rider not sure where they want to go). Your focus is razor shape, you can even cut butter with it, when all of a sudden your focus is broken because of an incessant honking coming from behind you. You turn around to notice that it is from a driver who wants to get ahead of you and wants you to move out of his, or even her, way. 

How often have you been either at the receiving end or the perpetrator of a mindless horn blowing. We are indeed a horn happy generation who loves to blow our horn for no apparent reasons. Not caring where we are or what we are doing.

The horn honkers always seem to be in a perpetual hurry to get to their destination. Makes you wonder why the hell did they not leave early, or on time, in the first place. They feel that the road is theirs to ride on and you are trespassing by riding on their side of the road. They will continue to honk till you give up in frustration and give way. Even then they will give you the stink eye, or with daggers in their eyes, as if you have committed a mortal sin against them.

Sometimes I have even tried to rationalise the reason for this habit. Maybe they want to help riders like me, who have a dangerous habit of dozing off, to stay awake. Honking helps to bring us back from a slumber. Or maybe they just want to frighten the jay walkers, who have strayed too far to the middle of the roada all lost in their music or texting or just plain chatting on their phone.

Whatever the logic for their honking may be, it seems like they fallen in love with their sound of their horn, and they don't want to keep this love to themselves but want to share it with the world; after all sharing is caring, even if it is frightening. With sharing this sound with the world, the world become a honky tonk place with the musicality of the horns. We are indeed a horn happy people.