Interesting things happen on my drive into work but I’m usually not awake enough to retain those incidents into memory until I have a chance to blog about it. I just happen to retain that this morning, by whatever means.
So I’m sitting at a red light this morning, in the left lane next to the turn lane headed southbound and this long line of cars pull up wanting to turn. The green arrow comes on for the left turn lane and not even a second went by when someone starts honking at the end of the line, about the same time the first car starts making the left hand turn.
I’m torn when it comes to honking. I’ll sure do it if it’s obvious someone isn’t paying attention and really doesn’t see the green arrow, but this is after I see the person looking down or somewhere else other then stop light, and this is after maybe 5 seconds. I one of those that gets out their iPod or iPhone and changes a song, or checks text messages at a red light because frankly, I get a little bored after a minute or two. In this situation this morning, it was a little different. The person that honked, was just honking for the joy of pissing people off, or maybe to release frustration not otherwise related to waiting a whole second before actually moving. No, this guy that honked this morning was just a jerk. The honk wasn’t directed toward me, but I felt sorry for the car in the front of the line, because after all, it’s morning and how many people are really awake first thing in the morning? Isn’t that what the mad morning rush for coffee is all about?
If you are a honker, maybe you should stop and think about it a little before pressing on that horn. Are you really trying to make everyone else’s morning as bad as yours, or are you just angry? Don’t be a jerk, mmkay?
November 30th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
