:No:It's rare that anybody honks milliseconds after a light turns green. It's more likely that the person who is sitting there not moving is distracted enough not to realize that what they think is a millisecond is actually many seconds.
This x 1,000.Yeah, count of three and you're getting a horn tap from me. If it's a short turn light, I might even hold it for a beat or two just for being an inconsiderate db. Nothing more annoying as a driver than people flaking at short lights.
I do this if people tailgate me when I'm going at least the speed limit.Spot on. My wife hates when I do this, thinks she's going to get shot by someone with road rage.
Good post!!I make sure to take extra time and accelerate very slowly if I get honked at. Will usually drive 5-10 mph under the limit until they pass me
I’m not talking about you. I’m talking about the jack hole who honks after one second. Even if you’re paying close attention, it takes that long to take your foot off the brake and put it on the gas and then start to accelerate.3 to 5 seconds green, and you havent moved, you're getting a honk. I'm that guy.
COME AT ME BRO
Hey, some people need to get down to the wayside to get some new swampers before they can go smeltin', doncha know.You betcha; those yoopers at the stop and go lights sure do tick me off, cripes.
Ok that doesn’t happen. 10 seconds is criminal.This x 1,000.
Nothing worse than the lights that stay green for like 10 seconds and being stuck behind some idiot who is playing with their phone and doesn't realize it is green.
What is the appropriate honk for a street whore?Honking is never right on a green light when driver ahead not paying attention. It's a horn tap ("tink tink") there, not a honk. Honk there should be illegal. Honk for any reason, other than to avoid an accident, in a residential neighborhood should be a jailable offense.
It does happen. Not often, but there are a few lights near me that literally stay green for only 10, maybe 15 seconds. Usually when they are left turns or something on to a busy street. And you only get the green every 2 1/2 minutes or so. Ugh.Ok that doesn’t happen. 10 seconds is criminal.
Well at least we're rooting out all the instahonkers. ?Should be like playing golf, be ready to go when it's your friggen turn.
You roll down the window and speak.What is the appropriate honk for a street whore?
What if it’s been a few seconds?I make sure to take extra time and accelerate very slowly if I get honked at. Will usually drive 5-10 mph under the limit until they pass me
Interesting regional take on what is East Coast Standard. Never think about it that way. Horns down, hook 'em, I guess not.This is regional too. I grew up in MN and went to college here too. It’s RARE for someone here to ever use the horn. My roommate was from Chicago and honked all the time. It embarrassed me when I rode with him.
Then I moved to Chicago and lived there for 10 years and I got used to honking/getting honked at. If you’re not moving when the light turns? Honk. Changing lanes and the guy won’t let you in so you start to creep? Honks were even a good sign (like if the lane was backed way up but someone was trying to turn out of a parking lot into the road you’d give a ‘beep beep’ to indicate that the could go ahead of you).
Now that I moved back I’ve had to change again because honking here is tantamount to declaring war apparently.
Then I give a polite wave and go. I should have clarified that my behavior was for the people that beep if I don’t floor it the second it turns greenWhat if it’s been a few seconds?
Schtick I use ... when leaving work, if one of my coworkers is first at the red light, he gets the looong insta-honk the milasecond that light goes green.I’m not talking about you. I’m talking about the jack hole who honks after one second. Even if you’re paying close attention, it takes that long to take your foot off the brake and put it on the gas and then start to accelerate.
Schtick = < 0Schtick I use ... when leaving work, if one of my coworkers is first at the red light, he gets the looong insta-honk the milasecond that light goes green.
Always makes me belly laugh the rest of my ride home.
Give it a few years and everyone will "instahonk." You just get used to it.This feels very much like NY thing. Nobody north of Ft. Lauderdale and South of Nashville would ever consider "instahonking". Terrible look.
"hi. I'm from out of town. You must be the hoors"You roll down the window and speak.
Yep. I have an hour commute each way and every single day I get stuck behind someone who doesn't move when the light turns green. I wait 3ish seconds and then they get honked at, no horn tap then.This x 1,000.
Nothing worse than the lights that stay green for like 10 seconds and being stuck behind some idiot who is playing with their phone and doesn't realize it is green.