I just honked the other day. I mean I laid on the horn. OK, picture this. I am on the interstate highway and we're coming up on an intersection doing 55mph. This particular intersection is always backed up at rush hour already causing problems if you don't realize everyone is dead stopped in the 55 mph lane!

So anticipating this I merge to the left to avoid the sudden stop and then start to merge back into the right lane. But nooooooooo, some idiots decided they would go farther up and try to squeeze in, you know, like a zipper type manuever? I almost hit them and had to merge left quickly because their tails were sticking out just enough that I or anyone else couldn't pass safely. Thank goodness no one was in the left lane or it wouldn't have been pretty.

I laid on that horn for at least one city block on all those people with their tails out. LOL Jim looked at me and asked "What happened?" Even funnier!

Other than that, I rarely ever honk the horn. I watched a girl with children in the car get nervous when a whole line of us honked because she was going to cross two lanes to turn left without looking. She had us all stopped while she turned. We were begging her not to do it but I don't think she undertsood English well. The end result was she pulled out in front of oncoming traffic and was slammed by other cars. They survived but I will never ever forget that. To this day none of us in that lane can say we didn't somehow contribute to her getting nervous and making a wrong decision. She was going to do it anyway but the honking horns probably made her go before she thought about it. True story. I think before honking now, it has to be worth it.