Yesterday, I was driving alone (without my spouse although I believe she monitors my comings and goings via location services) on the New Jersey Turnpike and I was about to pass this tractor trailer which caught my eye as it had some hot pink semi-religious graphics on it. I was surprised and delight to see a foxy lady driving it and some long dormant instinct sprung into action and I quickly rolled down the window to do that yanking motion with my arm to indicate I wanted to hear her honk me. I hope no one here takes that as something like sexual harassment and stalking. Well, I cannot say if she didn't see me or maybe that gesture is not in use anymore as I have not seen it performed on the highway or TV in a long time, but she did not honk me. I felt a little bit rejected, and while I generally don't speed, I pumped the accelerator and pushed my 2012 Scion xB to 71mph to get out of sight. Well, I am wondering now as I enjoy some nice Assam tea and a bowl of that limited blend Long Haul Burley that was made for Iron Skillet a few years back, if kids even do the honk salute anymore? Is getting honked for pleasure no longer practiced?
Feel free to share your own observations about small tokens of American cultural habits that seem to have disappeared.
I wish you all well and would offer you all a double fist honk as I sit here in my Scion but the horn seems to be on the fritz, as it whimpers and wheezes more than it honks, it reminds me of that that line in that poem which I read once: "the world doesn't end with a honk but with a whimper".
Feel free to share your own observations about small tokens of American cultural habits that seem to have disappeared.
I wish you all well and would offer you all a double fist honk as I sit here in my Scion but the horn seems to be on the fritz, as it whimpers and wheezes more than it honks, it reminds me of that that line in that poem which I read once: "the world doesn't end with a honk but with a whimper".
