101 Reasons to Honk Your Horn

In an Egyptian vehicle, the signaling horn (referred to as a hooter in British colloquial) is usually the most used part of the vehicle; used even more than the brakes. This is a list compiled from direct observations made by myself and Huma the Great of the methods of communication on the roadway infrastructure in Cairo collected through the course of our stay. The following observations are subject to the prejudices and personal postulations of the aforementioned observers. All supposed conclusions and explanations have no direct bearing on the actual intentions of the motor vehicle operators.

1. Tired of waiting for the traffic police
2. Merging
3. Exiting
4. Singing along with music
5. Celebrate something while you're driving
6. Inform a pedestrian that you're coming
7. Ask directions from the car next to you
8. To say hello
9. To wave at a person
10. Accompany the curses of unjust doings
11. Encouraging the action of another driver
12. For no reason other than simple entertainment
13. Inform the donkey drivers that you are coming
14. Warn other drivers that you are going the wrong direction
15. To catch the attention of cute women
16. Find customers (Taxi drivers)
17. Request for another driver to get out of the way
18. When there is a build-up of cars in a one way street
19. To communicate how two cars going opposite ways on a one-way street will get around each other
20. Wake up the neighbors
21. The owner doesn't know how to operate the car alarm
22. Because the car directly in front of you just randomly stopped
23. Get the attention of a shop owner
24. Wedding celebrations
25. Soccer victories
26. The horn is used like Morris Code using beep patterns to communicate (i.e. affection, curse words)
27. Changing "lanes" (whatever that means)
28. Inform bus drivers that you are in their blind spot (which is every spot)
29. Simply beeping to let others know you have a cool horn
30. The horn is broken on your car and never stops
31 through 101. Variations on the previous thirty applied to specific situations.


DISCLAIMER: For those of you who do not know me all that well, I am adding this post-par tum disclaimer stating that all of the above information is purely out of jest simply for the fun of it! Enjoy (especially all of you Egyptians who know you honk your own horns)!