Honking is a sport in India

My trip to Hyderabad confirmed it. It was early morning, there was very little traffic and everyone was following his/her lane and all that. But my cab driver would start honking from 100 mts away as if he is possessed.

I could take it no longer - this guy honking in residential area at 6 in the morning. It reminded me of all the disturbance below my bedroom window when I try to sleep and I politely asked him if he could stop honking so much. The guy was like at this hour nobody follows traffic rules and the villagers come on the road from opposite directions and "agar unko thoda bhi touch hone ka toh main toh mara samjho".

What was really funny was how the guy tried so hard not to honk after that, but I could see his muscles reflexively twitching to honk and it was killing the poor guy to stop himself.

But then anyone who has spent 10 mins on our roads knows: honking is a much loved sport. That is how we entertain ourselves while driving. There is no such thing as 'a reason for honking'. Now, that would be blasphemy.