To have asked her to stop honking her horn

[Fedupmum13]

Probably was unreasonable but I've just gone outside to ask a lady to stop honking her horn (honked it 6 times - she was joking around trying to hurry a friend up who was in her house). 2 of my neighbours and myself all have young babies who nap during the day at the front of the house. I just find it so unnecessary to be honking the horn like that. She does it most weeks and I just had enough today.
I wasn't arsey and asked nicely and she just laughed and shook her head. She's probably going to do it more now isn't she. Argh!
I know, I know - I should move to a quieter area if it bothers me that much!

My thoughts would be:

• as another poster said, 'accidentally' use the hose to spray on her car and hopefully in her window. Or ideally have an older child do it and then laugh it off like she did
• Speak to the neighbour she visits
• If i had the balls, I'd 'accidentally' spill a pot of paint on the back of her car whilst I was walking up the street and 'tripped', although this would likely be criminal damage?

We also have a beeper who regularly sounds her horn for a friend/relative in our road, It’s really irritating but the prob is if you confront them then it could cause more problems that it’s worth. There’s a certain type of selfish fucker that does this though, like my neighbour who shouts at the top of his voice in his garden, it’s all very Jeremy Kyle...it’s all done in the apparent spirit of fun and friendliness yet it’s really really flipping annoying. I’m not sure if it’s a lack of basic manners of some sort of deep-seated passive aggression - whatever it is, I wish the ground would open up and swallow these numptys!

Get a crazy mate to come over at the same time that you know she will beep her horn , who will threaten to shove her horn where the sun doesn’t shine unless she packs it in!
Possibly film her in the act and email your police traffic department about anti social driver behaviour, do this numerous times and they might send her a polite notice about the road traffic act and Highway Code.
I was with a mate once who decided to muck around with his horn , being young and immature, a police man came running out of no where and read him the riot act!

Why can't people be normal?! I really really don't want to argue with neighbours

Sadly there seems to be more and more inconsiderate neighbours about these days, selfish entitled gits.

Sadly there seems to be more and more inconsiderate neighbours about these days, selfish entitled gits**

Yes unfortunately many people are anti social and don’t give a monkeys about anyone else.
I’ve seen situations where a family have four cars in a household plus a work van but still take up the whole street parking their wretched vehicles. Despite having a driveway in some cases.
A man somewhere behind my house here last week was shouting his head off, drunk at someone at 1.30 am. Went on for ages.Wanted to kill the arsehole, I’ve got children asleep in bed.
I don’t blame people for wanting to live in the country!

It's not that she beeped. It's the fact that she didn't give a shit when it was pointed out she is waking up sleeping babies and being a downright nuisance. She is a selfish twat. I would definitely speak with your neighbour as she is the one who has to live amongst all the people who are being disturbed. Keep it factual but explain it is pissing numerous people off and not just you. Ask her to have a word. Hopefully, if she is a decent person she will not want to be disliked in the neighbourhood by being linked to selfish twat and will have a word for selfish reasons if nothing else

Honnnnnnnk!

Good for you for saying something! YANBU. She’s an arsehole and veganveal isn’t far behind

Right on queue! Anti social behaviour, a truck somewhere up the road is revving his engine and has his reversing horn on! At bloody midnight!
The law says reversing horns must be switched off by 23.30.
If I knew who it was I’d complain to the company about educating their staff

You need some of these

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AFTr3RuSBgY

Why don’t you imply to your neighbour (in the upcoming chat) that several people in the street have been affected by it, and that ‘there are rumblings’.

I’ve had great success with this strategy. I stop short of saying ‘we’ve all been talking about you behind your back for weeks’ (if we haven’t), but it’s so easy for people to dismiss just one complaining neighbour. They just write you off as a nutter. Harder to ignore the whole estate or street.

I mean, it’s not a huge leap that all sorts of people are annoyed by The Beeping, so they likely are all grumbling behind their curtains.

There are people who just don’t care about other people’s opinions at all, but most realise that keeping their neighbourhood friendly towards them makes life easier overall. Even if your neighbour doesn’t care about being ‘liked’, she might care about never being able to borrow a cup of sugar, or get emergency help, etc.

I’d give it a go. Show her the legislation and say you thought it was more honest to bring it to her attention directly, than grumble as a group. Wave a hand vaguely around the street. Smile, depart. Worth a try?

Nitpickpicnic, it could be but I've texted the neighbour joining me and she says that the neighbour is really nice and that she would be good about it if I spoke to her. I think I'll see how the beeping goes this weekend.
My parents had an identical problem when I was young, my mum worked nights and one of the neighbours visitors would beep a ridiculous amount of times. He had a quiet word and it escalated things. The guy would just beep even longer. Suffice to say my parents never spoke to that neighbour again. This was in the 90s, so clearly things haven't moved on much!

No things haven’t moved on since the 90s , some people are anti social selfish twats... blasting your horn repeatedly in a residential area for fun isn’t bloody on..