Honk Delhi Honk

With the widest roads, enough space in all 6 directions to grow in and a suave metro in place, one would think we have arrived. But for some strange reason people insist on honking even on empty roads. So I blamed it like most others, on the 'bus lobby' that's eaten into the roads, but I was proved wrong, even cycle rickshaws insist on going triing triiiinnnnnnggg tringggg incessantly, as if it’s the local sport of the city, and something they shouldn’t be left out of.

I figured that mindless-honking is a value that one learns early in life, when I saw a busy man who was eating, driving and sms’ing at the same time, asking his little 5 year old to keep the horn pressed while he juggled the phone and a dripping burger. So, in the quest for some logic I decided to address the issue openly with avid Delhi fans, and it seems like I’m really weird that I have a problem with the unnecessary honking…
Jassi aunty says- Honking is a way of acknowledging one’s presence, they are not like the rude ones who drive past without noticing you
Old Uncle Dheer says - Acha hai, hum alert ho sakte hai, pedestrians should know a car is coming in full speed…
The office boy says - woh toh ladki dekh ke aise hi tamasa karte hai
My boss – Really? No, I haven’t noticed… (he honks like a fanatic himself!)
Imagine if we did a ‘Honk Delhi Honk!’ campaign what a hit it would be, coz honking is actually more popular than both IPL and chola-kulcha!

AND my mom keeps asking over the phone...what's all that noise, are you on the road... so if i said the honking can be heard till mumbai, it wouldn't be an exaggeration...

Disclaimer- All characters and identities are fictional and bear no resemblence with anyone alive or dead.