To think you don't beep your horn as you arrive?

[yesitssea]

Neighbours kids visit him every day- lovely as his wife died a few years ago.

As they pull up, they beep their horn 3 times in a long way. BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP

They come at around 7/7.30 each day. They get out of the car and he opens the door and lets them in.

They do this every single night. i feel like the The noise is boring into my brain and it's just as I'm starting to get little one into a bedtime routine. I feel like I'm on edge waiting for it.

He isn't deaf (at first I thought they were maybe beeping to let him know they were here) he isn't slow at walking (he still goes to the gym at 80 😂) so it isn't to give him time to get to the door.

Am I being silly? Like it's only 3 noises, once a day but it's driving me potty. BEEP BEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEP

DH said to them the other night that the baby was going down and they'll wake him up (in a jokey way) but they've kept doing it.

Can anyone think of a reason why they are doing this? Are you a beeper? I know sometimes people beep if they are picking someone up but they just go in his house.

Honk

Don't beeeeeeeep me! Ha ha. It's mad. It serves no purpose other than to irritate me. But maybe that's the purpose.

Yabu. I get why you’d find it annoying. But there are far worse things you could be having to deal with other that literally a few seconds noise once a day, and at a reasonable time

It's actually illegal to sound the horn whilst stationary.

Just to out and be direct.

"Could you please knock the door instead of the prolonged beeping every night. It's one thing when it's a one off from a taxi or whatever, but its every night and it needs to stop. Thanks."

It is anti social. If you cant bring yourself to sat it then write it down and stick it through his letterbox.

They might stop. Or they might inceease it to 5 beeps. Just depends whether or not they are horrible.

I'm guessing so hwknows it them... the neighbour maybe a MNer who only answers the door to preapproved visitors

(Seriously, he may be fit but doesn't mean he doesn't feel a bit vulnerable)

this is misuse of the horn, and against the highway code.
they certainly should not be doing it.
but how to stop them. i wouldn't dream of doing that.
i think as they are so uncouth and inconsiderate and bad drivers obviously, your husband needs to be more direct. jokes are no good. send him out to state calm and clear, please don't sound horn when stationary as baby is sleeping. thanks.

Its anti social and not a legal use of their horn.

And it is totally unnecessary.

It really doesnt matter if there are worse things going on she could be dealing with. We could say that about literally every problem.

This is one of my pet hates.

We have people across the road from us who beep when they leave. And they wave. Why?? Just wave and get on with your life. Why the need to beep as well? So annoying.

Unless it's actually waking up your DC then you should just let it go, I wouldn't fall out with anyone over something that minor!

Never considered that it may be so that he knows it's them. That's a great point.

A friend of mine does this whenever she drives away from my house and I hate it. I've asked her not to so that it doesn't annoy the neighbours but she just laughed and said they'll get over it. It would definitely annoy me as a neighbour. However it does seem rather petty to actually complain so in your situation I think I'd just bite my lip unless it genuinely is waking your child up.

Your friend is selfish. What if someone is unwell or has disabilities and is trying to sleep during the day? I have chronic disabilities and often try and nap as I don’t sleep well at night. That’s why it annoys me so much. If someone wakes me up I can’t get back to sleep again. I know it isn’t your fault and you’ve asked them not to. Just having a moan really. People just don’t think about others.

Oh I hate things like this. They could ring his phone if he needs advance notice. Or just knock like normal people 🤣

Someone on our street drops her daughter off on our road about 8am to walk the rest of the way to secondary school and every time as she drives off she beeps the horn and waves at her!!! Makes me rage.

Yeah could very well be, elderly people can get nervous about people calling to their doors. My DH has a certain knock when he calls to my FILs house

I don't have a problem with someone doing this occasionally, during social hours. What you describe is not OK though- just tell them.

Easy enough to knock a certain way/ give him a call if they want him to know its them!

They shouldn't be doing it but they could just as easily be banging on his door. It's arsehole behaviour.

That would drive me MAD!!! 😡

Ok I'll have a word tonight as husband is away. Try not to be curtain twitching before!

This.

Having parented a baby who took 1hr to get to sleep and wpuld wake at loud noises I have zero tolerance for beepers!

complain to old guy and ask him to tell his family they are disturbing babies and angering neighbours. Being bereaved doesn’t mean he can’t have an awkward conversation

We have people across the road from us who beep when they leave. And they wave. Why?? Just wave and get on with your life. Why the need to beep as well? So annoying.
I know a lot of people who do this, it gets the kids excited, waving back and they go inside happy. I used to not like it but now I think it sounds off a visit. Probably wouldn't like the beeping when arriving si much but in Ireland that would be within the hours you can use your horn and personally I wouldn't think it's that huge a deal

I don't think I know anyone who beeps like that, but I also don't think it's that big a deal for someone to beep a horn at 7pm. One brief noise once a day is no real hardship as far as I can see, and I'm pretty sure your child will get used to it. People manage to get babies to sleep in houses that back on to railway lines, so I'm pretty sure yours will acclimatise.

I absolutely get why you would think 'Why on earth do they do that?' but it's such a minor thing that I can't imagine complaining about it. It's not like they're doing it at 2am or something.

I would have another word with them and ask them not to. If it is so the Dad knows it's them knocking, I'm sure they could figure out a way around it, maybe call through the letter box if he's too scared to open the door.

I popped out at 7.30pm, they seemed to take it ok, not massively friendly though.

You are allowed to sound the horn when stationary if you need to warn someone of your presence or another driver poses a risk. Which is the same as when moving, so what is the difference?