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I find that people are so obsessed with honking their horns, that it’s just out of hand! My children get woken up all the time from obsessive beeping, I can’t walk in the street without hearing the blaring sounds every few seconds! Nice people that would never hurt a fly, sit on their horns as if it would’ve been some sub-machine gun! Why should’nt pedestriants be able to defend themselves by honking horns (only if you have a license?!)
Am I exaggerating?
“Nice people that would never hurt a fly, sit on their horns as if it would’ve been some sub-machine gun!”
lol- leon- my favorite line.. I totally agree..Thats really what some ppl look like when honking.. I think honking comes from complete lack of patience. It happens very rarely that u need to honk for a good reason.. and I believe ppl who do it often is cuz theyr frustrated, have little patience, and r self centered. 4 some reason, The 10 second rule when someone annoys u doesnt apply when ur driving. A guy goes slow for 3 SECONDS n sum ppl r already honking..patience!!!! Another thing that bothers me is ppl who dont “share the road” – as if putting ur car over an area in the pavement makes it belong to YOU and someone who wants to get there too is called cutting YOU off..
I find flashing ur lights at someone to be less rude.. Its like waving as opposed to yelling “Hey, Moron..!”
are u calling bp residents honkeys?
NO YOU ARE NOT EXAGGERATING NOW AND I AM YELLING ON TOP OF MY LUNGS.
BP traffic is crazy. I live off a busy avenue and the Beeping is non stop. I wish I can send a voice note to the CR for all of you to hear.
Right now, 10:42pm, it’s like day here. Honking and hollering.
MANY times there’s beeping at 2am and I mean it.
MANY times there beeping at 5am and I mean it!
Bla bla bla I’m tired of yelling about it.
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Its hard to live in a city.
and Chaza”l said that 1600 years before people started to drive around big trucks with air horns.
What is your proposed alternative outlet for aggressive impulses?
the Goq…I thought of that too!!
Ok, i took a different approach when people were honking. it really upsets me how people have a lack of consideration at 10 PM and later and feel they have a right to honk. When I lived in BP, I went on my balcony and started throwing eggs at cars windshields if they honked. I am not ashamed to say, it felt good and they stopped honking because they were busy trying to clean their windshields:):):)
Dislaimer: I rarely use my horn. Sometimes go weeks without using it.
However, I do understand the NYC residents (its not limited to BP, at all). Finding a parking spot can easily take 10- 20+ minutes, which causes people to double park. DP causes the already congested streets to be barely passable. It can take longer to walk a shorter distance than to drive it.
The slow enough commute can be quite frustrating, and almost every intersection is busy. Add a car blocking etc, people will honk.
Then add the pedestrians. Who waits for a walk signal? That’s another cause for more traffic and –honking
hey that is the best part of bp…. the second we get off the bridge the horm goes on…
So, is throwing eggs on a car from your balcony the way to demonstrate derech eretz? It is a waste of food, bad manners and childish. Someone else’s bad behavior does not justify your bad behavior.
Elisha- You misunderstood me. My goal was not to demonstrate Derech Ertez! If a person can honk at 11:00 PM there is no way to teach them that. My goal was to show them that they are not the only people in this world with bad manners. Others can display them just as easily as they do. It maybe childish, bad manners etc, but the end result….they stopped honking!! 🙂
You’re kidding, right? Honking is the National Anthem of BP.
Can’t stand the noise? Move back to Kansas, Dorothy (or Flatbush, which is pretty much the same thing as Kansas)
Throwing eggs at cars is worse than honking.
BPT- those are wise words!
People just need to learn to respect others. I live outside of Philadelphia and the people in Philly (think black) are a lot more respectful!! A person can stop in middle of the street and start unloading a full car and no one would honk. And it gets plenty busy there. It is the same thing in BP when everyone goes through lights and zooms around other cars. Everyone has to realize that other people are just as important as you are. The 2 hour drive into NY is easier than driving for 5 minutes in BP. I would not live there if you pay me!!!
Philly, Kansas, whatever.
Once you cross to 11219, the rules are different.
(Honk, honk!)
Someone once made me roll down my window(when I used to have a car),JUST TO TELL ME THAT I’M STUPID.Did I mention that I love New York?
I love the fact that I moved out of NYC.
Flyer- I don’t think it’s right to stop in mid of street and unload the car, even though nobody beeps. That’s also missing a lot of mentchlichkeit.
eclipse i thought i was the only one without a car
my mother, (i dont drive yet) rarely uses her horn. even when the guy in front of us is at a green light for an entire MINUTE. (i am not kidding, we timed it). us, her kids were telling her to honk at the van but, nope. she said its against the law to use it unless it’s for safety purposes.
and i TOTALLY hate the city.
didn’t you hear, Boro Park is being re-named.
It is now going to be called Double-Park.
its not really honking, think of it more as music
tra la la la la honk honk, beep beep
shrek: lol! you’re in a happy mood today! ok it IS purim after all… (loved ur post abt getting shrekker!:))
Goq- I don’t drive! 🙂
Can’t stand the noise? Move back to Kansas. . .
What an outrageous attitude! How about, if you can’t obey the law, and if you disturb your neighbors, YOU move out of the neighborhood.
Smartcookie; But the people that are honking at 2AM are not the same drivers honking at 5AM. They probably take turns or change shifts. Don’t tell me that the same people are up all night just to torture you. Seriously. If you live in Boro Park (Or Manhattan) you can’t be bothered by the inevitable noise. We used to live at the corner of 13th. Ave. (across the street from Shomrei Shabbos Shul) and we all slept very well, B”H.
Honking? In Boro Park? Noooo!
Sounding your horn at any time in NYC makes you eligible for a $350 fine. I propose strict enforcement of this law; this will enable the city to restore the child care vouchers that have been cut from the budget.
Metro- were your bedrooms to the back of the house or to the front? My bedroom windows are straight above 13th!
Sounding your horn at any time in NYC makes you eligible for a $350 fine. I propose strict enforcement of this law; this will enable the city to restore the child care vouchers that have been cut from the budget.
A fine is supposed to match the crime, and only serve as a deterrent to the crime. Making fines to cover other expenses is wrong. Very wrong. Besides, you’ll now be motivated to fine, even when there is no legitimate reason to, (which happens all the time in NYC).
I grew up in Boro Park. The honking is not as common as you are implying. Perhaps it’s your dangerous actions that cause other drivers (Boro Parkers or not) to honk at you!
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PS I don’t live in BP anymore but I come back a lot to visit family.
Good morning BP’s!
Anyone else heard the beeping from 6 in the morning today?
A night when most children went to sleep waaaay past midnight…
smartcookie i have a valid licsense just no car 🙂
Smartcookie; They were both, to the front and the back. But in the rear bedrooms, we had another, more severe problem. The members of the
Congregation (Most of whom, apparently did not have daytime jobs.) started celebrating the Ushpizin Zemiros at 1:45 AM going straight till 7:45 AM. Try falling asleep with 105 Decibel music (Human and instrument.) blasting away all night.Metro- LOL- that’s why there’s a mitzvah to sleep in your Succah, so you shouldn’t hear their singing from your back rooms 😉
Sounding your horn at any time in NYC makes you eligible for a $350 fine. I propose strict enforcement of this law; this will enable the city to restore the child care vouchers that have been cut from the budget.
I don’t know about that. If society thinks that we should subsidize child care, then we should ask who we want to be doing the subsidizing.
I don’t really see a connection between honking your horn and being able to subsidize child care.
Kind of like when states think that lottery players are uniquely situated to be subsidizing education. I don’t understand that either.
(Yes, I am expounding on TBT’s post.)
Smartcookie; My Succah happened to be EVEN closer to the source of the music. There, I was within “Daled Amos” of the ”
er” Sukkah. Truthfully. It never bothered me. I sleep through earthquakes. Not the kind that hit Japan recently. But those (weak ones) that hit NY. I had the benefit of sleeping in bed and still attend the Rebbi Shlit”a’s “Tish” every Shabbos that lasted till 3:45 AM. (I’m told).now we know why New Yorkers are so grumpy. The driving situation combines with lack of sleep due to the honking…bad combination.
Out of town horns are much louder than those in the city. And I’ll take honking any day to the constant and deafening noise of jet planes found in suburban communities.
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