Horn NOT OK please

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(This is an ode to all the MACHO souls who have this chimerical attitude of driving a truck/car while on a bike)
Oh dear souls, its been quiet a time since I wrote. May be I was experiencing “writer’s block” all over again. Never mind though because my friends whom I really do not know gave me a thought intriguing enough.
It all started when I started hitting the road for a long drive frequently for reaching my office. It was day3 and I was inexplicably happy when suddenly a “truck” honked close; but before I could even react, a motorcycle overtook me.
Now where was the truck??? Nowhere.
It is a highway that I ride through every day and so I was expecting trucks when there was a gentle beep which off course according to any sensible conjecture should be a “motorcycle” but NO!!!! A gigantic Tata Safari it was!
Given the reaction time that my fellow riders allow me to have, my sense of recognizing their type of vehicle plays an important part. I say so because the honk is there, only when the vehicle is out of the range of the viewing mirror to see it.
Now I don’t get how much to shift when I hear a baby crying behind me or when there is a dog making that annoyingly painful sound as if I just drove over its leg! Or do they expect me to dance when “dhoom” plays; they definitely don’t give me an idea about shifting as trucks and bikes have this horn in common.
Beat this now! This one is really unique, if there is this increasingly near bleating of the sheep, should my senses be smart enough to guess how many (sheep) there are!
Well, non! Its just a motorcycle.
I can easily clairvoyance a day when there will be a roaring lion and I would not let the person behind overtake, rather I would run for my life or maybe a roaring lion in reality would instill no fear or thrill in me. A day it will be when the guys indulging in eve teasing on a regular basis will have “OYE SEXY” horns; when an employee would pass near his boss and a simple “YOU SUCK” horn would do; the boss on the other hand would respond with a “I CAN FIRE YOU”. That soon there would be no need for the hooligans to go and threaten people, a “HAFTA NIKAL” would suffice; red lights would be replaced with “PRIME MINISTER/PRESIDENT” horns; and the prostitutes would have “CHALTA KYA” horns.
All this would make roads a place of conversation, but there would be one thing that would defy the sole purpose of horns; there would be no warning we would see in a horn, coz we would search for the right conversation for us.
Let’s not make a mockery of road safety. Let horns be for what they are. Let technology not play with your life. Use the default horns provided in your vehicle because when everyone tries to be different, none ends up being one.

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