Saturday, March 22, 2008

Honk Honk

I was out with a friend recently, a ride on his pulsar. It got me into this cynical thought of an average drive/ride-r's mentality while on road when caught in a zig zag, cross-wired jam.
The first thing that hits the mind is to Honk.. honk honk as if the other person aage peeche saamne is waiting to barge on him and put a knife on the neck or probably the 3 legged cat/dog at home is dying without milk or there is too much sun on the neatly grown grass lawn outside the apartment and this person will be rushing to save one of those!

If this is one side of the coin, there is the side, that has people who honk for no reason, just on a plain quiet road the way this person honks is way too weird.
Reason being this person is too scared if somebody would fall on his way and that he may land up spending the rest of his life eating only the salt less porridge in vellore jail!

This person has a chart of where how and when to honk which I think should most be following.
How to honk? - a hard, full deep press on the button (a trumpet picture is the indication) on the bike for a continuous 2-4 non stop minutes until the pillion rider's ear drum tears off.
When to honk? - Say you are driving at a time, when only those zombie state creatures wander along the roadside, around 2-3.30 AM of the night-day, a gush of air piercing your ears and no other noise could be heard apart from your vehicle's.. never mind honk!!
Where to honk? - on a clean plain quiet road where you do not find anything of a similar kind to you for about a 30ft neither in the front nor at the back of yourself.. could even consider residential areas of the city.

Now there is another friend who says that in foreign countries honking is considered as too big a thing to do on the road. Think a training or a 20-30 days of drive with the person I mentioned above would improve this guy's trait. Truly speaking, even I have noticed such a stuff while in Soton.

So, What I think is there would be 3 possible reasons that a person end up on this continuous press of his trumpet button
1. Annoyed by the congestion, madly angry on almost everybody around including those who have parked their vehicles on all 8 directions around him in a so called cross wired layout of traffic
2. Too scared of the not-existing-somebody turning up on his way
3. kya bada reasons chahiye yaar.. time pass simply! Bindass :):)

******************************Added Later**********************************
I was so happy to know this. "Mumbai's police marked World Health Day, April 7, as a "No Honking Day."
They were trying to build awareness of the effects of noise pollution in India's financial and entertainment capital, where it sometimes seems as if the city's 1.5 million vehicles are honking their horns at the same time. "

WoW what an after-effect of my post :)

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