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dEn_of_asyD t1_iwyp2xx wrote
This.
"I was having a chill drive". Okay turd nugget we don't care about tHe gEneRaL vIbE oF yOuR dRiVe. We're interested in the situation.
Second, the story has holes in it. The way OP tells it, there's a car in front of holding up traffic. So the guy wasn't honking at OP, he was honking at the guy in front of OP. I get you're in line of fire, and that's unfortunate, but you're not the main character. Sometimes shit is just unfortunate and you're in the background of it, mind your own business and don't worry so much about other people's problems. But then also, OP says "You don't have to fucking wait for me". So wtf was it, was there another car in front or are you lying out your ass for intrawebz pts?
Third, let's not skip the fact that OP's "you don't have to fucking wait for me" is OP demanding others work around him. That' OP acts as if they're a problem that everyone else should be putting extra effort into avoiding, which is a fucking shit attitude to have when driving a fucking car.
Look, I'm not there. And I hate the online comments that act like they know more than the person telling the story. So I'm not going to be "THIS IS DEFINITELY WHAT HAPPENED". It could be OP innocently omitted a detail from the story. But it sounds suspiciously like someone was trying to turn left at a no left intersection and deserved to have their ears blown out with a car horn. Most left turning lanes in NJ are just that: exclusively left turning lanes. If there's no exclusively left turning lane, it's usually a jughandle. Trying to make an illegal left? They deserve to go deaf, the last thing we need is someone's stupid ass plowing into a mom driving her kid to soccer practice because they can't read road signs. Again, maybe there were just key details accidentally omitted. Maybe it is the few roads that are stupid in this state (it happens, esp in rural areas). But that doesn't detract that as of now, there's no reason to support OP's story.
NorthJersey t1_iww9mzw wrote
I didn't read what you wrote but I mentioned this to my wife recently. That people are honking way more often.
My only possible answer is that all the New Yorkers that moved here have their Jersey plates by now. Naturally they honk their horns a lot.
Saucyguy02 t1_iwwals0 wrote
It’s definitely in certain places in jersey. Other places in jersey don’t have this problem from what Ive experienced, but this was like my second or third time driving around this new area for me, and i would hear honking from everywhere all around, not just directed at me
A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub t1_iwwdxqw wrote
I was turning into a shopping center parking lot earlier this week, and the car that was turning in front of me hit the brakes hard to let another car by. I rolled my eyes, but the guy in the giant F-5Million truck right behind me laid on his horn and I could hear him yelling out his window. He also tapped my bumper ever so slightly. He disappeared after that.
The woman driving the car came to angrily confront me after I had parked, thinking that I was the one that was pissed off with her. I told her that I don't honk for inconveniences, and about the truck behind me. We both agreed in the end that people need to learn to fucking relax.
If you're always in a hurry, maybe calm the fuck down a bit. Maybe leave five minutes earlier in your enormous landraper, so you don't have to rush so much that you hit somebody and flee the scene instead of getting the frosty you originally wanted.
expatriato t1_iwwf4wk wrote
these mf suv/truck drivers need to chill the f out. always in a hurry
mf, don’t live in the woods if you can’t stand being in the car
A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub t1_iwwhsh3 wrote
I agree that land yacht drivers need to chill in general, but I need to note that this technically happened in Jersey City, not out in the sticks.
expatriato t1_iwwm899 wrote
I guess people in NJ drive too much and there can be traffic at all hours so… they’re tense the whole time. F it, not a lifestyle for me. 4 hrs a week in the car, max.
A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub t1_iwwnma7 wrote
> 4 hrs a week in the car, max.
That's how you end up with a car that's 15+ years old with less than 100k miles.
expatriato t1_iwx49jq wrote
5K / year, if that
erection_specialist t1_ix3cxwt wrote
>4 hrs a week in the car, max
Sometimes I'm in it more than that in one day...30,000 miles a year will do that to you
SnooWords4839 t1_iwwmz4h wrote
Sorry, but if someone is on their phone, light turns green and they aren't moving, they get the horn.
Y'all sounds as if you are from the South, things move quicker in the North, doesn't mean we are unsafe!!
Vulg4r t1_iwwof3e wrote
If it smells like horn everywhere you go check under your shoe.
International-Yak119 t1_iwx09fl wrote
PLEASE no, sounds like the last thing this one needs is to lift their foot off the pedal any more
StrategicBlenderBall t1_ix3f5jh wrote
Stay out of the left lane, asshole.
jackystack t1_ix3man6 wrote
Lol, funny thing is - you're in NEW JERSEY.
- Many people drive like assholes, it's what we do - and many out of staters f* up our flow - like PA drivers that drive the speed limit in the passing lane, causing bottleneck traffic jams.
- The person honking was probably already late and wanted to make the light. They don't care about arriving safely or on time - all they see is the car in front of them NOT moving. Like a bird that shits on your car, it's not a complex mentality.
- Ranting here isn't going to harvest much support because it's NEW JERSEY. The same asshole that laid on the horn would probably slam on their brakes if you were driving behind them too close.
Heck, I'll probably be downvoted to hell too - and I'm equally annoyed by people who overuse the horn, but, f* 'em - they're behind me and they can wait.
SlyMcFly67 t1_iwzrhiv wrote
The appropriate response to being honked at is giving someone the finger and moving on with your day. Crying on reddit because it ruined "your chill" is something nobody really cares about any more than you care why that person may have been in a rush and honked their horn. If you're sharing the road with others and expect them to adjust to your mood, you're a fool.
aden_feifdom t1_iww5286 wrote
it’s just a sound. why horn bother you so much? it probably sounds better than most of the music out right now.
TheOkGazoo t1_iwwhxn5 wrote
I'll come scream in your ear. It shouldn't bother you. It's just a sound.
SlyMcFly67 t1_iwzrw8r wrote
You think screaming in someone's ear at close range is the same as a car horn at a distance? If so, you really suck at metaphors.
aden_feifdom t1_iwwi3ip wrote
meh, you kind of get desensitized to screaming once you have a few kids
New_Stats t1_iww6e0f wrote
Wasting our time is the height of rudeness here and that's exactly what you did. So you get beeped at, pray we do not beep further.
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You ought to apologize but since you lack manners you get indignant, as if it's cool to come into our culture and dictate how we should behave
Saucyguy02 t1_iww7ea5 wrote
Like i said, if it bothers you drivers so much, switch to the other lane instead of laying your hand on the horn for a whole minute because honking isnt gonna do shit. Plus i couldnt switch in the other lane with all those other cars coming through
thinkfuryerself t1_iww5z95 wrote
Lol sure sounds to me like someone who doesn’t live here drove like an idiot and is now butthurt.