I hate honkers
I realized this morning that I am having a stress reaction to honking horns.

I now live in an area that's thick with traffic, on those very busy and very dangerous roads that are crawling with ambulances and police because people drive like maniacs.

There are a couple of commercials on the radio with honking horns and I hardly pay attention to commercials, so when I hear a horn, I think it's real. It causes me to panic - a true stress reaction. My heart races, my eyes dart around, searching for danger or other drivers.

Why must people act like morons in traffic?

I rarely ever honk at anyone - until I moved here that is. Now, I wanna beep at the slightest provocation. I suppose that's better than what I did the other day....

My husband was driving out of my son's gymnastics class. Like playing Frogger, we had to go over two lanes of heavy, fast traffic (no traffic light) to get to the other side and then wait to step on the gas and get into the flow of the same kind of traffic on the other side.

Unfortunately we were then stuck in the middle in one of those situations where there was an SUV on the other side trying to do the same thing. We couldn't see past them to see if the road was clear, they couldn't see past us.

So I told my husband to inch up and let me look. Mind you, I said INCH. He steps on the gas and we lurch a foot ahead, just in time to see a small car coming at us. She still had plenty of room around us and didn't even have to swerve. Though I assume we scared her a bit, she's honking like crazy and shaking her fist or something.

Well what do I do? I have a stress reaction. And just like all of the other honkers get, I flipped her the bird.


We all went down the road on our merry way, and pulled into the left lane at a stop light where we get to wait twenty minutes for a green arrow.

I was talking shrubs and perennials when the receiver of my bird from up the road pulled up next to us after her light turned green, stopping traffic, so she could put her full arm out the window and flip ME off while yelling obscenities.


I blinked. No, I think I laughed really loud.


"She has serious road rage"

"You had nothing to do with that?" (Men. They're clueless, huh?)

"No. SHE caused MY poor reaction because of her blessed honking in the first place.... And furthermore, she'll probably go down the road and kill someone cause she's in a mood."


What's the moral of this story? Don't be a honker. The end.

- posted by Ginxy @ 6/10/2004 06:29:00 AM