to think there is no need to sound your horn everytime you drive off from your house?

[ilovetochat]

There are 3 people living in the house opposite ours and also about 3 or 4 grandkids get dropped off and picked up daily.
Everytime anyone arrives or leaves or comes to collect/drop off kids they feel the need to blast the XXXXing car horn whether it's 7am, midday or 11pm, they are driving me mad.
the teenager driver also has one of those loud exhausts so we hear the 1st 5 miles of his journey, aaaagh.
They have woken dd up from her nap twice this afternoon and often wake her after she has gone to bed at night.
What with them and the building work at the end of the road, dd will never sleep again.

I think it's illegal to sound a car horm between 11.30pm and 7.00am. Howevr, I may be wrong. There is a lot of inappropriate horn use these days though. A quick 'toot' is not unreasonable if leaving family, but all the time sounds a bit OTT.

they do it when leaving their own house. when grandchildren are dropped off the parents pull up toot horn then kids get out and wander over to the house. teenager's girlfriend toots everytime she leaves. lady comes out gets in car then toots so kids come out to get in car.
they are all as bad as each other.

UANBY - simialiary there are too many lazy *s who can't be bothered to get out of a car, walk up a front path and ring a doorbell. These also are impatient types who after about 10 seconds feel the need to resound the horn, and every further 10 seconds until the mate they are picking up appears.

It sounds like there is a real culture of tooting then!

As it is waking your dd, and if they are a reasonably near neighbour, maybe you could have a polite word with them about it?

if it was just the teenager i would have a word thinking he just wasn't thinking what he was doing but as its the grandparents who are in their 50s they are obviously just rude so i don't know whether a chat would work or just offend them.
you are right seeline, they are too lazy to walk their kids to the door or fetch them to the car.

They may not have considered what effect their tooting is having. They may not really intend to be rude but are just unthinkingly lazy. If you give them the benefit of the doubt a chat could work? I don't see how they could be offended unless they are really unpleasant people.

Maybe a friendly and polite note through the letterbox will yeild results?
YANBU

in the end 3 grandkids decided to play outside our house swinging on trees and screeching woke dd up anyway, obviously nothing i can do about that as it's the middle of the day. When i looked out the kids parents were outside having a fag ignoring their children destroying the trees by snapping branches, then got in the car and blasted their horn.
i give up.
i don't think they are the type to listen, they think they rule the street as it is parking very inconsideratly often blocking us in.

Our neighbours do this, they seem to have family over to visit every day, and they all toot umpteen times up the road as they leave. Why? Isn't a wave and a goodbye enough? It really irritates me and it's nowhere near as bad as your situation so YANBU.

thanks kettlechip, i think i live in the noisiest street in england. they are just starting to build opposite, the ring and ride reverses beeping the full length of the street everyday to collect an old lady from the end, the ice-cream man woke dd every day in the summer parking o/s her window with the tune on, the rag and bone man has been up twice this week already. all accompanied by the horns tooting from over the road.
heaven.

at the rag and bone man, thats a blast from the past. Don't think I have seen one of those since about 1979! I thought you might be on my road following your 1st post. My neighbours kids do this when dropping off their kids for the grandparents to look after. It makes me seethe too.

bloody rag and bone man is always here and truck is always full, obvioulsy no-one wants to pay the council a tenner to remove goods.

YANBU to be annoyed by all the extraneous tooting. Ages ago, I lived next to someone who got picked up for work b a taxi every day. The driver never came to her door, just tooted the horn. It drove me nuts.

Do you know them well enough to say something? Use your DD as an excuse - that way, it's hard for them to argue.

i think tooting the horn is really Rude.. but perhapsi am just an old lady.
my neighbour does it when she leaves the house, parp, parp, parp... i think she has somethign wrong with her car.
her friends toot outside the house and i glare out of the window.
i think its bad manners

oh, and my other neighbour's daughter used to get picked up at some ungodly hour, .. 6am!! or somethign, by someone hooting
aaargh

because it has been icy lately, the man comes out scrapes the car in the morning, then toots the horn till his wife comes out and then drive off. ffs she knows he is scraping, why doesn't she just give him 5 mins and come out.

Oh god - we have this at two houses near us - drives me insane.

this morning dd woke up just before 7 so we were looking out the window at the cars etc. a truck pulled up o/s the house opposite and blasted its horn 7 times in like a tune. no response, he did it again, a light went on upstairs, he sat there reving the engine loudly till 5 mins later the teenager came out in his work stuff and off they went. who does that before 7am? and why didn't the kid set his alarm? i'm just glad dd was already awake.
i want to move.