To have pomped my horn?

[Friedmushroom]

Will try and keep this quick but I’m so annoyed by the car park stand off I’ve just had that I need to know AIBU?

So, I’ve just been parked up in a dark car park, in a dark coloured car, no lights on. Another car pulls up and starts to reverse into the space right next to me, which is a disabled spot so huuuuge, and with plenty of other spaces around. Car reverses at a funny angle, at speed, and VERY close to my car, so close both passenger and me think it’s going to make contact.

I pomp my horn, car keeps coming so I lean on horn. Driver peers round at me shouting and gesticulating. She finishes parking (with me and passenger both wincing), winds window down and starts having a go.

Apparently I’m BU to have pomped as she has reversing cameras so knew I was there. My stand point is; you were literally an inch away from my car (when there’s two whole empty spaces to play with), I don’t know you have cameras, I was warning you that I was there. Car accidents happen every single day so I was making sure you didn’t hit me. She thought this was a ridiculous point and can obviously drive properly as she has passed her test , “people wouldn’t pass their test if they didn’t know how to park”.

I’m so annoyed by her attitude, but she clearly thought I was completely ridiculous. I think it would have been ridiculous for me to have sat in my car and just allowed her to reverse into it. So Mumsnet, AIBU?

Here for the pomping.

Pomped is my word of the day now and will be shoehorning it into conversations at work later.

I’m a honker. And might have honked in the same situation.

I only started reading the thread to find out what "pomping my horn" was

I hoped it might be sexual

I still wondered after all the horn pomping happened in a dark carpark!

Late to the party I know but "pomped" did make me laugh! I've only ever heard beeped, sounded and honked (latter American?). Possibly peeped or parped on Noddy. Where are all you pippers and bippers from?

Pomp! I love it!!

Here we honk or beep. Some people bip. I prefer to honk.

Honked? Please no one say parped again!

Omg pomped 😂😂😂

Surely a typo?

It's a normal thing to say where I live?

The horn on the bus goes pomp pomp pomp!

I'm going to pomp my horn next time. Much more delicate thank hooting or honking

@Friedmushroom

‘Pomped’ is fairly common up here (Lancashire) wonder if it’s a regional thing?

I grew up in Lancashire and have never pomped in my life..... bloody love it though, it could catch on.

And no yanbu he was driving like a dick!

Is it too early to go and pomp on the drive, I desperately want to.

Google really isn't coming up with much for pomp and horn (other than pomp and circumstance!) Or dictionary entries. I'm guessing very localised - language is fascinating and I'd never have heard so many regional variations without mumsnet!

User 😁😁

@TheGumption

The horn on the bus goes pomp pomp pomp!

Where I am “the horn on the bus, goes beep beep beep” when I was a child and for my DC. I’d love to pomp the horn though.

Isn’t it interesting.

It's like no one ever heard of regional words.

YANBU. I would have done the same. I've had people do it to me - I was a bit put out that they doubted my skills, but could understand their nervousness. Your parking woman clearly has issues.

Love "Pomped". It's the perfect onamatopoeia.

I say pomped too! South Wales. 😂

YANBU - it would be normal on hearing the noise to stop and acknowledge/interact with you to reassure you’ve been seen etc. So that’s the issue for me.

Maybe a Lancashire horn has a fuller timbre as mine goes ‘bib’ which is short for ‘bib bib’, don’t hear pomps round here.

'Pomped' 🤣 (I had to type that three times because it was autocorrecting to 'pimped')

Er, yeah you were being a weirdo anyway.

I’ve always loved how we are all from the uk But we different words for different things,

Never heard of pomped or bibbed.

We use tooted or beeped.