After passing the driving test, people should be given another one - in fact, it might be best if the order was reversed. It should be called the “honking test” and its funny name should only be a smoke screen for the serious implications of its outcome.
People should be put in a car and faced with lots of frustrating, yet fair situations. Stuff like sitting behind a car waiting to go right and having to wait for an endless flow of traffic that renders the maneuver impossible. It’s like that “Boiling Point” show that should have ruined Ashton Kutcher’s career if this world functioned on normal rules.
If our subject goes at least one minute without sounding his horn, then he’s OK, he can go on and try to pass his driving test as well. If he does honk, but he does it moderately, just to warn the other driver he’s back there and would like to get moving, he’s rescheduled for another try two months later, which should give him enough time to think about what he’s done wrong, and come back more prepared the next time.
If this method were applied in Latvia, then we wouldn’t be watching this clip right now, as the guy in the car filming the whole scene would be riding his horn-free bicycle on his way to work. Or he'd be just another passenger in a bus. But since nothing stopped him from driving his car and using the horn for its well-known function as universal cursing translator and conveyor of messages, this happened.
What do you know, the other driver was having none of it. What he did have, however, was a hammer in his trunk and the necessary state of mind to use it in a pretty unconventional way. I mean, did you see anything that needed to be nailed in on that windshield?
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