What do people think they're going to accomplish

[mtowngman]

by blowing their car horns in the middle of a traffic jam? It's a TRAFFIC JAM-HELLO!

I'm coming home from work this morning and it's the usual jam at the intersection of a major secondary road and a state highway; same jam every day.This woman behind me in a black suv starts blaring her horn and running her mouth at her windshield, she was alone in her car, like everybody should just crash into each other to get out of her way. Well, I could tell she was looking at me in my rear view mirror, so I started laughing real hard and blowing my horn too-like a lunatic, figuring what the hell, we might as well have a chorus of car horns at 9A.M. Now she gets this really mean glare on her face, bright red lipstick, the whole bit, and she whips out the cell phone and holds it up while dialing to make sure I can see and I'm thinking "please let her be calling the police to report me for-what-having the nerve to be in front of her?" If it's all that leave the house five minutes earlier or something, jeez. I bet when she gets to whatever playing dress-up,I'm the manager job she has, some poor subordinate's going to pay for my insolence.

Hope everyone else's morning's going well!

[qnr]

1. Strange isn't it. I think I use my horn about once every four years n/t

[calico1]

2. I have been asking myself this question

ever since I began driving and I still don't have an answer. It's kind of like the person that speeds and cuts in front of you, only to still be held back by the car that was really going slow. And they usually end up right in front of you at the next red light. :eyes:

[mtowngman]

4. and the places I go everyday, school, work wherever

I can usually see the next light from the one that I'm stopped at, so whats the hurry? I'm probably not going another half mile before I have to stop again.

[mainegreen]

3. Traffic Jam? I've heard of those. Those are things you get outside of Maine, right?

:evilgrin:

[mtowngman]

5. Oh, you have no idea what fun you're missing out on.

[qnr]

6. I call BS. I had to wait almost four minutes at a mall in Augusta yesterday

:hi:

[mtowngman]

7. You called it right

sometimes it takes me four minutes to get out of my driveway up here.:hi:

[qnr]

10. I can imagine. I grew up in NYC n/t

[mtowngman]

11. I thought you meant Augusta Georgia

:dunce: I grew up in NYC too, thing is, my family didn't own a car; didn't need one.

[qnr]

12. No, Maine. Yeah, we were always mass transit types, I've driven in the city

afterwards though.

[mainegreen]

8. Do you even have enough cars up there to have a traffic jam?

You have a mall? I wasn't aware there was anything outside of Portland.

:P

[qnr]

9. Depends upon your interpretation of mall :) Marketplace at Augusta is

moderately sized. This is an old sat image, there are a number of new buildings : http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=44.344599,-69.785843&spn=0.021115,0.037079&t=h&om=1

[necso]

13. "I bet when she gets to

whatever playing dress-up, I'm the manager job she has, some poor subordinate's going to pay for my insolence."

Probably a good call, methinks.

[cobalt1999]

14. I did a little experiment once...

Left our New York office at rush hour, jumped in a cab for the airport and counted the number of times he hit the horn. 95 times! Yes, 95 times between the office and Newark airport.

[redqueen]

15. bwaaahaahahahahaaha

that's hilarious!

ah, the absurdities of life :)