Horn O.K. Please!!

If you ever wonder what are the things that exist only in India and nowhere else, I'll give you one of them!! At least I think it exists only in India.

"Horn O.K. Please" The first time I saw this sign when I was in Mumbai I really didn't get it. When I looked around more I found it on on the back of every auto rickshaw and truck in Mumbai. This simply means that it's very ok to honk the horn and they actually put a please in it. It's like they are asking you "politely" to honk your horn. I thought Mumbai was noisy. Not until I came to Bangalore.

There are two main differences in this case. Bangalore's traffic jam is worse than Mumbai and the sign is different. In Bangalore the sign is "Sound O.K Horn" which I have no idea how did they come out with that.

I thought for a while that Cairo is a noisy city because of all the horns. But here they placed a new standard for sound pollution. The bus drivers are crazy. They can honk the horn for like 10-30 seconds non stop just to pass somewhere. The rickshaw drivers have this amazingly annoying horn.

In my opinion, even if you drive in Egypt, you still need some guts to drive here. Regardless of the fact that the steering wheel is on the right and all the U turns are on the right as well, you need to have a lot of either guts or stupidity to drive here.

Honking the horn is infectious I would assume. So if I start driving here, when I go back home I'll be cursed all day long in Cairo streets!!

But what the hek!! This is what makes Bangalore the city it is. I'm not gonna hate the whole city just for that :D There's a lot to see and enjoy. There's a lot to India to see an enjoy. I'll be seeing as much as I can of it all.

Mee3o over and out!!