to excessively beep my horn while driving?

[EricNorthmansMistress]

I just got my horn fixed after a frustrating few months without one. Yesterday I counted three beeps, and that's not unusual. It's always when people have been dangerous (old fella cut me up at roundabout, brassy blonde in a chelsea tractor pulled out into road in front of me for eg) but not strictly necessary as I had seen them each time and was able to slow down. But it's so tempting to beep at people who make obvious and selfish/careless mistakes....

Am I a wanker?

You're acting in contravention of the Highway Code.

And I'm sure driving without a horn is an offence as well.

yes.

you are supposed to use your horn as a warning to people who appear to have not seen you, to alert them to your presence in order to avoid an accident.

It is not supposed to be used in an agressive "You're a TWAT" way.

naughty you.

Ok. Well the horn is fixed now

So if a person is dithering at a roundabout and decides at the last minute to pull out in front of me, who is already on the roundabout, causing me to have to brake in order to avoid hitting them, I don't beep? I mean, I know I don't need to beep but it's a so satisfying a natural reflex surely?

Yabu based solely on saying "brassy blonde" [shudder]

I suppose one person's natural reflex is another's poor manners on the road.

YABU - it's potentially dangerous, as it'll distract other drivers, as well as bloody rude.

I drive with my hand on the horn all the time.

THen again I speed and get caught so I'm no shining example.

Nope. You don't beep unless you truly feel they have not seen you and you need to alert them to your presence in order to avoid an accident.

What you do do, is make a "why" gesture at them or something

tbh, mostly they know they've cocked up. We all do. I have made some driving errors and have been on the receiving end of far many more.

Mostly people will apologise for their mistake.

Those who don't, don't care and won't care if you beep at them. They'll just think you're in the wrong because obviously they own the road.

In 14 years of driving I've used my horn twice.
Both times in carparks where someone was about to back into me as they'd started to reverse out of their spaces without looking and I had nowhere to go.

I'm brilliant at beeping my horn at people in carparks completely accidentaly. The horn buttons on the wheel are in a stupid place where it takes very little to nugge them by mistake when getting out while picking up bags or something.

I also like to do it to het the GIANT rook of nasty crows to fuck the bastard off the trees in the garden.

I used mine the day after passing my test.
Was sitting in the tiny metro I had at the time, and a lorry started reversing, reversing, reversing.... I thought he must have seen me, I was here before him, and there is someone seeing him out- then realised no, he hasn't!

I do sometimes use it when I've no real need, I'm just grumpy they've cut me up. I try not to though.

My driving instructor used to call it 'horning'
Never heard anyone else call it that, ever!

Yup, you are a wanker.

I've been driving for about 6 years (I was a latecomer to the road) and have probably used my horn about 6 times. These have been at times when someone is totally oblivious to something going on around them and about to cause an accident - apart from one incident of road rage on my part (can I blame the pregnancy hormones and plead diminished responsibility in that isolated case?). I hate people who use their horns at the slightest - and (sorry Mistress) generally observe that they are the ones whose driving skills are a little lacking.

Do you tailgate too? Indicate correctly on roundabouts? Don't get me started on that...

I'm not a wanker really, nor a perfect driver. I don't beep at people who make honest mistakes I don't think. Some people are just so annoying

yes. i dont drive but would be well peed if i had been on nightshift and you were excessivly beeping your horn near my house

I don't tailgate and I always indicate properly on roundabouts!

What a relief!

I feel the need to point out here that I am also not a perfect driver - is there any such thing? Perhaps anyone who considers themselves to be so is the polar opposite.

Am I alone in that my driving skills definitely deteriorate whilst pregnant? I definitely make more mistakes, have to concentrate a lot harder and my parking is a joke!

If you live in London then yanbu. Sometimes when a drug dealer Audi driver is trying to pull out into the space you're about to occupy the only solution is to lean on the horn and accelerate while grinning madly at them.

I have the voicebox from an old Dr Who toy on the dashboard
When someone annoys me, cuts me up, drives like a numpty , I hit it
Great satisfaction to hear
EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE

If only it did disintegrate them

We moved last year from an area where everyone beeps all the time, to one where nobody does. It is so much less stressful. Since then I've found the only people who do use their horn here are (a) in the wrong to start with and (b) not local.

You shouldn't use the horn to beep at someone, you use it to alert someone of your presence.

valium is right.

I certainly am!

twice a day, I drive around a three lane one-way system. I use my horn almost everyday, as people cut me off or change lanes without checking - or follow the curve of the road - but in my lane - not theirs!

In these cases I am saying 'Oi - I'm here twat.' and also 'You idiot - watch out!'.

Is that okay?

I like to use my horn as the Italians & Spanish do.

Often, and accompanied by wild hand gestures and a stream of expletives.

IMO, they know how to use the horn on the continent.