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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:37am on 2006-01-20 under ,

Civilized people do not honk their car horns repeatedly and yell "Heeey!" over and over in the middle of a residential street at three fucking thirty in the fucking morning. Park the damned car, get out, and ring the goddamned doorbell, you twit, instead of making a racket and blocking traffic in one direction for fifteen minutes straight.

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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 12:01pm on 2006-01-20
Car horn = ethnic doorbell. You ain't figured that out yet?

For the record, I agree with you - park the damned car, etc. A few years back, someone was out in front of our house honking away. Turns out she was honking for *me*, because she was making sure an important-looking piece of mail, which had been mid-delivered to her, got to me. Except, of course, she wasn't going to get out of her car. Apparently perfectly acceptable behavious was that I would come out of the house to her car and get the mail from there...
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posted by [identity profile] dfn-doe.livejournal.com at 03:45pm on 2006-01-20
I think ethnicity has a lot less to do with it than just general rudeness... And by "a lot less" I mean entirely nothing to do with it.........
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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 05:01pm on 2006-01-21
From my own experience, I would have to disagree with you on that. It seems that "rudeness" doesn't necessarily factor in - many of the ethnic honkers see nothing wrong with it. They see it done, so in their turn, they do it. If they're being formal, they go to the door; in more casual circumstances - *honk*.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:42pm on 2006-01-21
I can see this in a place-and-time where one is expected (which could possibly apply to what I observed -- a carpool pickup for an early shift perhaps? -- but not to someone trying to hand off mis-delivered mail) ... at an hour when a) the intended hearer is likely to be awake, not have the windows closed (we've hard a warm spell, but it's January), and not have the television up loud enough to make the horn outside indistinct or be all the way at the far nd of the house making dinner, and b) when the rest of the neighbourhood isn't likey to be asleep ... and briefly, resorting to ringing the bell when the first honk or two didn't work.

Fifteen minutes straight in the wee hours takes it into unquestionably rude territory. (Same for the fellow who I know was picking up a workmate at five in the morning and making a racket for half an hour every morning for a week or two a while back -- I actually got up and went out to tell him off one morning and he explained that he "had to" be loud because his oversleeping buddy was going to make him late for work, and he didn't feel guilty about waking up everyone but his buddy on my block because folks on his block on the other side of town didn't keep quiet at seven or eight PM when he had to go to sleep. Fortunately I haven't heard him out there lately. Maybe he learned to ring his buddy on the phone before getting in the car, or something. This one was a different person in front of a different house.)

The other usual offenders here are taxicab drivers.
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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 02:46pm on 2006-01-22
Taxicab drivers have their own little place in the netherworld where they will go when they die. I have a special hate reserved in my heart for them.

There has been exactly one day since I moved to Chicago that the cab drivers went on strike because they wanted higher flag-drop and per-mile rates. I have never felt safer as a pedestrian in downtown Chicago than I felt on that day.
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posted by [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com at 12:15am on 2006-01-21
And of course you were supposed to magically *know* that the honking was for you. Amazing!
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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 04:55pm on 2006-01-21
Apparently, yeah. She must have been out there for 5 to 10 minutes before I figured it out.

Cool icon! That must have been fun.
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posted by [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com at 06:56pm on 2006-01-21
Cool icon! That must have been fun.

Thanks! It was LOTS of fun... have a look at this post if you want to know just how much fun it was. (-:
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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 02:41pm on 2006-01-22
5-string bass. Now you *do* have my attention. I was, however, commenting on your default icon, with the dolphin. :-)

That nevertheless sounds like an interesting night.
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posted by [identity profile] noire.livejournal.com at 02:35pm on 2006-01-20
One of the lesser reasons I'm glad I left DC. From my experience/observation, honking continually until someone came out instead of using the doorbell was the standard proceedure no matter the hour.
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posted by [personal profile] cellio at 04:42pm on 2006-01-20
Yuck. That sort of rudeness makes me long for the roof-mounted short-range rocket launcher. But then you have to get up and remove the evidence from the roof before the police start the roof-to-roof searches, and that's a pain...
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:27pm on 2006-01-21
I've considered catapults and energy weapons (sound-tracking directed-EMP generator to knock out thumpy car stereos at obscene hours, or just a tightly focussed beam of sound that sounds like feedback at a painful volume), but have refrained for exactly that reason. I've been tempted to put it on somebody else's roof ... but I watch CSI and I'm not sure I can clean up the evidence leading back to me well enough. (Not that Baltimore can spend what television-Vegas, television-NYC, or television-Miami does per case, but not knowing just how diligent the local cops would be, I don't know how paranoid to be.)
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posted by [identity profile] trouble131.livejournal.com at 07:09pm on 2006-01-20
That is one of the many reasons I fled the land of the rednecks. The art of getting out of the truck and knocking on the door is vanishing.
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posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 03:16am on 2006-01-21
It seems to me a watermelon cast from your highest window would not really
reduce the noise, but greatly increase its entertainment value.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:46pm on 2006-01-21
I've considered that (and other less pleasant objects) for folks with loud stereos at the traffic light. This woman was far enough down the block to out of range for my arm.

But I'm thinking next time I'll run out with a sword in one hand and a cell phone in the other and if I get close enough before they zoom away, I'll explain that I figured anyone making that kind of ruckus at that hour had to be in trouble and needing a rescue and what should I tell the 911 operator they need help with?
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posted by [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com at 11:30pm on 2006-01-21
this is what sniper rifles are for, you know.
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