really i agree with mt now you'll probably have a dozen people beeping near your house. ha ha ha ha

How do you know its a "he"? Have you seen them or just using a sexist assumption?

Come on. In the whole big scheme of things, is this really such a big deal? Unless they are laying on the horn and blasting it, this is pretty lame. Part of living in a city. If they were doing it at 3 a.m., might be different.

Personally, I've been there, done that... in my experience, it was not a simple "toot"... it was a strong blast, followed at a time by another blast with more impatience and sometimes a third and some noisy exchanges. A horn is an alarm sound, not a doorbell call.
I caution people visiting me never to blow the horn... come and get me, and I do the same.
In the really big scheme of things, of course, nothing matters at all.
In general, especially in the city, silence is golden, and a small gift we give to our neighbors is their own quiet comfort.

Just another example of people having no empathy for anyone else. Would it be that difficult to actually get out of the car and go to the door??

My response to that would be, you don't know if geting out of the car is even an option, and to immediately assume someone is lazy is presumptive at best. The person who is blowing the horn could be disabled and unable to get out and get to the door. The person might also be unable to afford a cell phone to call. There can be a myriad of good reasons that someone does this. They don't always just do things to aggravate others and because they are lazy. You should never jump to conclusions without getting facts. I am not saying that is the case here, but assuming is never the productive way to address any situation. Too easy for misunderstandings. I am not saying these people aren't lazy or clueless or rude, maybe they are -- but maybe they have a reason for what they do. If it really is such a big issue to the person who doesn't want to hear the horn, they should go to their neighbor and ask if there is a "reason" why the person does this and attempt to work something out nicely. But until you know all of the facts, it is presumptive to just assume. If there is a good reason for the behavior, then maybe compassion and understanding would be the best route to take. We all have to live in this world -- and that means living with people who are noisy even if we do not like it. Too often in our world, our first response is a negative one when frequently there is a good reason, or a situation can just be resolved with some mediation.

get real! john stoner, your the lazy one, now everyone will be beeping past your house, get a job

I am headed there now....and have an AIR HORN.......LISTEN

I do like the notion of trying to solve the problem, by talking, by inquiring, or by any other means we can think of.
A lot of people here are grownups, I suspect some have kids...
These kinds of problems are pretty basic: we can try to solve them now, learn how it can be done, or just the leave the problems for our kids to figure out, or pass along to their kids on down the line.
Every little problem like this solved here counts. This is a place to put the problem out there, and then figure out how to solve it. How to live together.
@John Stone: can you give it a shot, see if this one can be solved?
Good luck. Show us how it's done. Good luck.

Is it one of those gray vans that picks up people for UARC, or a similar association? That was going on by me on West Chestnut Street. It is REALLY obnoxious because the driver lays on the horn at 6am every day. It is totally unnecessary and done out of pure laziness, since both the driver and the person being picked up have cell phones. A few years ago, I hopped out of bed, ran out front and asked him to please stop doing it.
I also asked what organization he was from, but before I got an answer he agreed to stop.
If it is one of these gray vans, complain.

Maybe they can just wave a flag out the open car window.

@drizzle: thanks

A year-plus back, there were drug dealers living across the street from me, and one of their signals was to honk horns. They had friends/affiliates living two doors down from them and us, and they would stop in front of my house, honk the horn, then go down to the other house to make their deals. They sometimes wouldn't even bother with the other house, and use the horn to make the deals right in front of mine.

A couple of times, they would honk at 6 a.m., and it would upset me. So I'd go outside and tell themm to stop. Most of them would, but one guy got all POed and told me to mind my own business. I told him that he was coming into MY neighborhood and waking ME up, so it became MY business. He curse me out, the other druggies came out and we had a shouting match, and I told them I was calling the cops. The cops (in Saugerties) told me they were aware of the situation and to be patient.

For a couple of months after that, they continued to honk the horn, so what I started to do was grab my video camera and go out on my porch and videotape them. They would look at me all POed, and I'd tell them, "Well, you guys are the ones honking your horns." They toned it down a bit, and eventually moved, although some of them still live in the other house a couple of doors down. They've also quieted things down after myself and our neighbors complained to police.

So yeah, it may just be a lazy or ignorant person honking the horn, or a person with a physical handicap or not able to own a cell phone. But it may also be a drug dealer as well. Just keep that in mind.

It seems too often the response from the police is "be patient" as they look to arrests and prosecution rather then their job first and formost: an orderly society, quality of life. It's sort of like a fire department that would let a situation get worse until it became a fire that they could fight.
New York city benefitted greatly and still does from the practice of enforcing basic law and improving the quality of life. In the process, they also had ample opportunity to request identification and search the offenders and found all sorts of people breaking parole, carrying an illegal substance, etc.
Recently in Kingston we had a crime centered at a Sunoco station where social service checks were being cashed for a fee and phony purchases recorded: the city sufferd for more that a year while the police built a case for something that could have been nipped in the bud.
Good that Saugerties (the have cops walking a beat) but even so, they, and Kingston can move faster. A lot faster.

I think this is really just a part of living in a society. How is this different than someone who lives near train tracks having to deal with the train horn blowing in the morning? Or suppose someone works evenings and then has the opportunity to sleep only in the afternoon, and cars/buses/garbage trucks/oil trucks/ice cream trucks are all making their noise during the day, causing disruption in the rest period for said overnight worker? It's just part of life, if you absolutely cannot deal with it, enter the psych ward at the hospital. You won't hear any of those noises in there...

I had a problem with my neighbor when I first moved here. I am 50 years old and live alone. She complained CONSTANTLY to the landlord that I made too much noise, that my dogs barked, etc., etc., etc. She terrorized me. If I vacuumed during the day she'd kick the walls and yell "Shut the F*CK up B*tch." I grew up a military brat, and it is ingrained in me to live quietly. I couldn't watch television, listen to the radio or anything. I literally was terrorized to the point where if I wanted to watch a movie, I'd watch it on my computer with ear plugs. I mean, really, is that insane or what??? Yet, she bitched and bitched and bitched. She'd leave threatening notes on my door saying that the landlord didn't allow dogs and she was going to have them taken and put down. My lease says i can have the dogs. I was afraid to even watch TV downstairs for fear of her kicking a hole in the wall. Her issue was that she had migraines and her daughter worked at night and I was ruining their lives, blah, blah, blah. Finally, I decided to fight back. I like the house I am in. I like my other neighbors. I like the area. (BTW -- she doesn't get along with the other neighbors either). So, I called animal control. They came out and even banged on my windows when I wasn't home and the dogs didn't bark. The enforcement officer said he looked through the windows and they were wagging their tails, happy to see him, but they weren't barking. (yes, they do bark when my neighbor leaves in the morning, but I put blinds up and that is minimal now). I called the police when she kicked the wall when I vacuumed, and they told her she might want to move if such things bothered her that much and that I had the right to vacuum. The police also told me to put my radio and tv back in my bedroom. So, I guess what I am saying is that a honking horn is NOT that big of a deal. It's part of living in society. If living in the city and hearing a honking horn bothers you THAT much, then you need to think about moving out in the country. There are plenty of places around here where you can get space. You are chosing to live in an urban environment, so you have to learn to deal with people making noise. Once you relax and commit yourself to not letting it bother you, you will be surprised that in time you won't even notice it.

Agreed with Julie. Some people are TOO sensitive. I work in a radio station and our building is shared with an apartment in the floor above us. Sometimes we are on the air with the residents above us vaccuuming or engaging in other "noisy activities". Not much you can do about it, legally. Again, its part of living in a society

Simple matter of trying to be a good neighbor. Just doing what you can: keep the place neat, keep the sounds inside the house, be pleasant.

And giving each other a little slack when things aren't as good as we'd like them to be.

Just that much

Issue resolved

you still with LIZ