Real Texans use their six-shooters.
Horn Honking is appropriate when I want you to look at my middle finger.
This is my pet peeve. It’s been pretty normal in my neighborhood as long as I’ve known to honk your horn when you’re outside somebody’s house to pick them up. This drives me up a fucking wall, no matter what time of day. Use your cell phone, or ring the doorbell. I might ignore it if it just was two or three quick little taps on the horn, but it’s usually BEEEEEP BEEEEPP. (pause 10 seconds) BEEEEP BEEEP. (pause 10 seconds) BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. I swear to God, one of these days I’m gonna lose it and take a baseball bat to one of these fuckers.
Horn blowing shouldn’t be late at night, not betw midnight and 6 am
Not everyone has a cell phone (I don’t) and sometimes the driver’s options are limited by traffic or lack or parking spaces, or being lae for something, etc.
I don’t care. Arrange it with your friend to be on the lookout for you, or double park (if you have room to let traffic go by) and ring the doorbell or knock. It annoys the living crap out of me at 7 p.m. as much as it does at 3 a.m. (and probably moreso, since I’m a heavy sleeper and can sleep through the honking.)
Get over it. If it bothers you so much, take up a nighttime hobby. Like, say, the vuvuzela.
Anybody parks on my block and honks the horn, I’m getting the plate number and calling the cops. Don’t want to talk to the cops? Every house on the block has a doorbell.
My thought is that they are dealing drugs. Maybe the police would be interested.
Especially when we have magical computer devices that can text, email, or call the person inside to come out. I can’t imagine ever honking to get someone out of their house for a pickup. I mean, if they aren’t answering my texts or calls, I’ll park and go knock on the door.
No, they’re not. I’ve seen them come out, get into the cars and leave. It’s definitely rides coming for random middle of the night hour purposes. They’re not bringing them right back, either, so it’s not get-in-drive-around-the-block deals or something.
We had a dealer across the street for a while. (Kid who lived there all his life, I’d known him since he was a baby. Broke my heart. Broke it even worse when he got shot by some other dealers.) Customers coming to a dealer’s house aren’t doing anything to gain anyone’s attention, especially in the middle of the night. They’re as circumspect and low profile as possible. Besides, drug dealing is a supplier-controlled business. You don’t rudely blow your horn to summon the dealer to you, you go to the dealer!
Get a cell phone and leave yourself plenty of time, because if you honk your horn near my house at 6:00 am* I’m throwing rocks at your windshield.
*Seriously… 6:00 am is okay for honking? Step away from the pipe.
The driver’s options are always limited by the fact that in most places it’s illegal to blow your horn just to announce “I’m here!”.
There’s really no good time of day for horns. Not everybody spends most of their day away from home to get their work or studying done, so one shouldn’t assume there won’t be any neighbors nearby to be annoyed, when they pick someone up in the middle of a weekday.
OK, question about a different purpose for horn honking. Is it OK to honk at someone for driving way under the speed limit? Example: going 40 in a 55.
When someone is doing a halfassed job at driving, I think a toot or two is appropriate. They might be arguing with the passengers or whoever’s on the other end of the phone call. Or they might have spaced out, or fallen asleep. Honking the horn is the nearest thing to a slap upside the head for some of these people, which they desperately need.
Oops. I answered the poll without reading the OP. I thought this was the traffic use of horns. No, that’s the lazy use of horns. It would be a lot more appropriate for 1)the ridee being right at the door running out when they see the car. 2) the rider making a phone call to let the person know they are there to pick them up. 3) they should both take the bus.
So, I change my vote. Sorry for not reading the OP before voting.