Honking for all occasions !

Honking for all occasions
By: Rajbir Desweal
Disciplined drivers in many countries rarely honk, except in disgust or to sound an alarm. Nearer home, the honk is a signature tune, and can be amended to suit every occasion. A honk of the highest pitch and tone, blowing to the winds all norms and rules, could shatter golden silence and ruin all serenity and civility on the roads.
To get the cow out of the way, to get a pretty girl turn your way. Whatever the reason, there’s an apt honk. There’s music in it, if you will only hear it with the right ears, there’s a honk for every occasion.

But hello, why look down on something so widely accepted on our streets. What is a ride on our road without the tee-tee, pauwn-pauwn? Let’s just plunge right in and join the mob, go honking all the way, for it is also eminently needed to establish right of way. It’s a malady, and it’s also its own remedy!

For music-loving people like us who have so many ragas, whose music is made to suit various moods and climes, honking is expression too; there’s a tune for every season. We’re honkers unlimited, and we find a honk to match the mood and the reason.

For marriage, there is a honk. For a funeral, there’s another honk. If the light turns green, honk. To announce you’ve arrived, honk. For overtaking, just honk hard. To call a friend from the flat on the fourth floor, honk harder. To match a beat on the stereo system, honk. To caution a blind man crossing the road, honk. And to get the cow to make way, honk.

And the list doesn’t end there. To sound a victory, honk. To get a pretty young thing to turn your way, honk. To protest while stuck in a jam, there’s a honk-chorus. On a blind turn, there is a legally justified, PWD-desired, long honk.

There’s a euphoric honk, a guilty honk. There’s an audacious honk and a sadistic one. There is an answer-honk to a question-honk. There is a musical honk, and an unmusical honk.

There’s ‘make way in a hurry’ honk, the ‘I’m fed up’ honk. There’s a merry honk and a threatening honk. There a honk just to honk in your face and push you up the wall too, the ‘Bas, waise hee’ honk.

So since you cannot get above the din, just join in. Happy honking!