Barking Horns Do Bite

Peeeehhh peeehh its a common site in India to see little kids pretending to ride a bike and they always always have to scream peehhh peeehhh while pretending to do so. I always wonder why is it so hard to pretend to ride a bike without all that noise. Well the only reasonable explanation is that kids follow what they see!!


We Indians are trained to drive without head lights, without breaks, without license and insurance but never ever without a horn. It’s like in olden times when there use to play these huge drums on the arrival of the king. Blowing our horn on road (for no reason what so ever!!) seems like a little gesture from each of our side saying “Hey I m the self assumed king of the road GET ASIDE “

Jokes aside, but have you ever thought why we have to use the horn when stuck in traffic when you absolutely know that the vehicle in front is as stuck much as you are? Why as soon as the lights turn green we have to blow horn to remind the vehicle in front to move. Why do you push the horn even before he can push the accelerator? Why is that the further you are in the queue the less patience you seem to have? Why is that it’s more dangerous to cross road when lights are green that to cross when they are red?

Is it simply lack of traffic sense or is it that to us happy and noiseless co-existence is a little inefficient. Why is that we Indians trust more on our ears than our eyes. So even if we see a car coming in the same lane from opposite side why do we have to take it as an insult to our ego to change the lane .The tie breaker is obviously decided by the might of the horn. But why do we have that urge to show our supremacy to complete strangers? Or may be sometimes it just a way to vent out our days frustration. After all it’s a stranger so no harm done!!

But deep down harm is done. All the noise just adds to the suffering of being stuck in jam, not to mention the noise pollution it leads to. Driving becomes more dangerous as you cannot rely on anyone’s driving sense (if they have one), because it’s the adrenaline that drives the traffic rather than the rules.

It’s about time we so called educated people start taking some responsibility and stop giving in to chaos. It’s about time we brighten each other’s day with a smile (and a side or a way) rather than deafening it with noise .Yeah we all have our own reasons to use a horn, but it’s about time to eliminate all the wrong ones.