Sunday, November 25, 2012

Horn Ok Please



On our first Tuk Tuk ride I kept seeing this phrase on the back of vehicles.


What does this mean? This is not English as I know it. Are they saying “Use your horn, okay? Please??” or “Stop honking your horn please, okay?” Why are cars instructing other cars on horn usage?

By the end of the trip we determined that this was a request to use your horn (which is weird for us living in a city where there are signs posted everyone with fines for using your horn). We observed that it was mostly slow moving vehicles, Tuk Tuks and trucks, that had this message and we hypothesized that it is a request to faster vehicles to give a little honk if they were going to try to pass them. This actually came in very useful when we were in those faster vehicles, recklessly passing the slower guys. So I’m totally okay with horns, please.

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