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Gatica
Citizen
Username: Katracho
Post Number: 220
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 9:54 am: |     |
To the very considerate driver who was leaning on his car horn near my house last night: Thank you so much for keeping me and my family awake.
I hope that the favor is repaid back to you hundred-fold. [insert expletive here]head! |
Duncan
Supporter
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5461
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 4:35 pm: | |
happens near us a lot as well. Often the young men who are a-coutin our neighbors across the streets daughters, drive by at all hours and honk like crazy to say "hi sweetie, can't wait til we can go to the sock hop next saturday night".
I have two words for these idiots.
text messages.
Gatica, I feel your pain. And I get it in the morning and afternoon too from parents who are trying to drop off their children at school and feel that honking the horn is somehow going to make the school bus exit the driveway faster.
I know I know...I bought a house near an elementary school and football field and should have known better, but really. Horns are for emergencies. If you are picking somone up, pull over, call them on your freaking blackberry, text them or GOD FORBID get out of your car and knock on their door. |
Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10185
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 6:24 pm: | |
Its not limited to kids. A neighbors ex-husband always does the shave and a haircut two bits thing with his horn when picking up the kiddies.  |
mickey
Citizen
Username: Mickey
Post Number: 365
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 6:52 pm: | |
When someone picks up their kid from my house via the horn method, I go outside and ask them not to beep b/c it upsets my neighbors. I then tell them if they'd like to call ahead I will ask their kid to be ready and waiting outside.
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Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2142
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 11:47 pm: | |
REJECT TEXT MESSAGES! REJECT BLACKBERRIES! REJECT CELL PHONES! They are only for maniacal egotistical fat balding men who hog seats on the train, drive SUVs, drive poorly, and generally smell.
Reject anything that makes your life easier!
Oh. Sorry, wrong thread. |
Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 536
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 8:16 am: | |
In point of fact, it's my ingenious low-tech solutions that can make your life easier.
Not gobs of useless, annoying, electronic wireless devices. You'll see.
Reject the male primal urge to push buttons compulsively. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11805
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 8:17 am: | |
Maybe Maureen Dowd's new title Are Men Necessary? suggests we guys should get sex changes. |
Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 537
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 8:48 am: | |
She's on to something, Tom.
Just think: without men, there'd be:
no wars
no road rage
no SUVs
no automated "customer service"
no hockey
Sounds pretty great to me. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11809
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 10:35 am: | |
OK, I am willing to face it. Everything is my fault.
I bet you'll see women's hockey, though. And women love SUV's just as much as men do.
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Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 539
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 10:42 am: | |
True, but I don't think women would have dreamed up the concept of SUVs or automated customer service if they had been in charge. |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 2943
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 10:50 am: | |
Or the wheel, for that matter.  |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2146
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 11:20 am: | |
Actually, Maureen Dowd was on some progam, and she insisted that the answer to the question in the title of her book is not "No."
As for Ligeti, I'm sorry you are ashamed of your gender. There is surgery for that, you know. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11813
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 11:23 am: | |
I don't take the Dowd's title seriously. She doesn't want us to. It's a test of our understanding of her extremely sharp sense of humor.
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Gatica
Citizen
Username: Katracho
Post Number: 222
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 12:18 pm: | |
Hey, let's not lose focus here... we're talking about honking horns and the like... no thread hijacking please 
Well, it looks like a bigger problem than I thought. Whatever happened to the quiet and civilized life of the 'burbs? |
Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 540
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 12:45 pm: | |
Someday Rastro and his chum Case will be identified, confronted and crushed by 174 pounds of Ligeti man meat. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2148
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 1:12 pm: | |
ROFL... I think my 220, 6'5" frame would be fine under the "crushing" weight of 174 pounds of Ligeti stew.
Please don't hate your gender. As for being identified, if you really care, PL me and I'd be happy to give you my real name.
Getting back on topic, a couple of short honks is, IMHO, fine as long as it's not after 8pm or before 8am. Long, persistent honking, or honking during sleeping hours should be met with a well placed egg or paintball shot. |
redY67
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 4784
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 1:24 pm: | |
Drives me crazy! One of our neighbors runs every morning with a friend. Every morning the friend would come and beep his horn, then get out of the car and start running. My husband finally approached him and asked him to stop. Never had a problem since. |
growler
Citizen
Username: Growler
Post Number: 874
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:14 pm: | |
We have a car that pulls up to a neighbors house that at 7.30 every morning to pick up his kid with rap music blaring and constant honking (10-15 minutes worth) until the kid finally comes out of the house. Drives me insane. He does it at night and on weekends too. My assumption is that he is too lazy to get out of his car to knock on the door peacefully or use his cell phone. Oh how many times I want to throw an egg or buy a paintball gun for such occasions. |
redY67
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 4793
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:15 pm: | |
growler have you tried talking to him? |
RR
Citizen
Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 492
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:18 pm: | |
growler, put a small sign on your front lawn that says "honk if you like eggs". and then make sure you have a few dozen in the refrigerator. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1166
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:26 pm: | |
Growler - I would talk to the kid's parents (your neighbor, that is, not the parents of the kid in the car). Might be effective if the neighbor kid tells his friend to keep it down. |
growler
Citizen
Username: Growler
Post Number: 875
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:57 pm: | |
The guy in the car is the kids dad (or one of the dads). You would think he'd know better. Guess not. Our neighbors have talked to them about other issues but to no avail.
It just baffles me how inconsiderate people are.
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LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1167
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 4:00 pm: | |
Ugh.... That just stinks. Sorry about your situation; how annoying |
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