Three Car Lengths Away
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 09:16AM 
It has been a very long time since I took a drving test at the DMV. So, I am not sure if they teach you proper horn usage while driving. It seems like driving etiquette is a course that many of us probably need. (I know I have a tendency to be a little aggressive on the road. I blame it on living in the Northeast.) But people are getting a little out of control with their horns.
About three or four days ago, I put my signal on to change lanes (that's like minus 15 on the driving test if you don't). As I checked the lane next to me, I could see a car at least three car lengths behind me in that lane. It was a woman in a sedan and she was driving a little faster than I was. But there was plenty of room for me to get over without cutting her off. Besides, I had put on my signal. Once I got over, she blarred her horn, as if I had cut her off. Was it really that serious? did she have exclusive rights to that lane?
What's the point? You know I wanted to ask this woman the same thing. She never went around me and I eventually ended up moving well ahead of her several miles down the road before exiting the expressway. Sometimes we just honk our horns when it is not necessary or even serious. Just slow down and share the lane sometime, especially if there is three car lengths of space.
Reader Comments (2)
Before Road Rage (& cell phones), people used their horns to signify their passengers of arrival. Very rarely does someone warrant a 'bonk' and at times, I forget mine is in the steering wheel [when it was too accessible as a button by my thumb on the wheel of my last car]. People are psycho! I just let the speed racers go by, but I am a lead foot at times. My fondest memory of getting a license is my antsy-ness to get one and now I've been driving longer than I've been alive. YIKES!
Seeing as though I ride in the car with you pretty often I have to ask . . . are you sure you didn't cut her off?!? LOL!! Just joking:) I agree with Brad. People are psycho!!