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My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
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09-16-2009, 01:17 PM
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My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
 ...the response is to quit looking around or daydreaming. A smaller car requires more attention to detail.
Ron Simon - MANSFIELDNEWSJOURNAL - Sept 15, 2009
In other words, our society needs to grow up! --Ed.
The trouble with road rage is that I'm a part of it. In an age where everybody seems to be terminally angry, I'm just a part of the crowd.
I don't have the chance to pout and shout at the president during a speech in Congress. But I do have the opportunity to growl and howl at other drivers as I make my way from Point A to Point B here in north central Ohio.
It's almost embarrassing when I snarl and yelp at the driver ahead of me who sits through 10 seconds of a green light before he gets the message. My only saving grace is I'm reluctant to use my horn.... [Read More] |
09-16-2009, 02:48 PM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
Only reason I avoid honking at idiocy is my Civic has a wimpy, wimpy horn. It's high and nasal, inspiring contempt and irritation rather than fear. It positively whines. How I long for the confident, authoritative tenor of a Crown Victoria. THAT horn means business.
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09-16-2009, 03:07 PM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
My last car was an 89 Grand Marquis. My g/f drives a Esteem. I often threatened to put my horn in her car.
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09-16-2009, 03:35 PM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
I think the loudest horn I had was a '74 Cadillac Coupe De' Ville.
It didn't have one horn. There were three of them under that hood!
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09-16-2009, 03:38 PM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
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09-16-2009, 03:39 PM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
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Originally Posted by St. Mushroom
Only reason I avoid honking at idiocy is my Civic has a wimpy, wimpy horn. It's high and nasal, inspiring contempt and irritation rather than fear. It positively whines. How I long for the confident, authoritative tenor of a Crown Victoria. THAT horn means business.
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Mine's hidden behind a fully blocked grille, so it's wimpy AND quiet.  Yeah, I don't use it very much.
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09-16-2009, 07:58 PM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
I've been thinking of getting a new horn. One of those "Compressed Italian Air Horns" for ~$40.
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09-16-2009, 08:21 PM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
When somebody's waiting for >3 seconds at a green light, I'll tap my horn to alert them, not lay on it. The first gets a normal acceleration, the next gets a tire-shredding launch I have found.
I also have two that sound quite pleasant at low volume.
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09-17-2009, 09:18 AM
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Re: My brand of road rage stops short of honking horn
I do the same tap. I'm getting tired of alerting phone texters that the light is green. In start/stop traffic yesterday I had to honk twice on my drive home for the same gal that was texting the whole way. I could see her eyes in her rear view mirror jumping from the road to her phone. Ugh, I wanted to scream out the window "Quit the texting and just drive!"
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