Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

It never ceases to amaze me what power can come from a simple honk on your car horn.  I think it is something each of us secretly, deep down, in the far recesses of our soul want to do every chance we get.  The minute an opportunity arises I waste no time in cleaning out the 'ol horn megaphone.  A little lurch into my lane and your grandkids will hear that horn in their sleep.  What I did discover, however, in my last encroaching encounter was that I think we should have a dial on our horn that allows for a graded scale of intensity.  For instance, if I am trying to get into a parking spot and a man and a woman are standing there talking,  I may want to turn it to say, a 1, which sounds a lot like that whimsical Road Runner from childhood cartoons.  Maybe that reading says, "Honda Civic".  On the other hand when a woman with lots of hair, talking on her cell phone, in a white Ford Mustang, proceeds to merge right into me I may want to turn it to 5.  That reading would say something like, "Departing Love Boat", or "Runaway Train".  Because when I lay on my horn, sometimes the factory installed single tone horn just doesn't convey the feeling that I want the other driver to receive. It can be very frustrating.