I had no idea they were that loud- I usually have my hands over my ears when I sound the horn 😉
Years ok when I was a bus driver, we’d often get new batches of buses which were pretty much the same as previous batches, just with a few minor tweaks and design changes.
One day, I took one of the brand-new buses out on a route. As I pulled out of the bus station, a moron with headphones and a phone in their hand just stepped out in front of me without even looking.
There’s no point yelling or honking at these kind of people, because they’re either stupid or just don’t give a shit, but I still leant on the horn just to make myself feel better.
Bizarrely, bus horns always used to sound like a regular car horn so it was pretty easy to ignore. I suspected that the road-crosser knew I was there but that they were just being obnoxious and in all likelihood, could tune the sound of a car horn out.
Leaning on the horn unleashed the mother of all air horns. The road-crosser jumped out of their skin and leapt backward out of the way, almost in the same manner which a cat tries to escape from a cucumber.
To this day, I have no idea who shit their pants the most; the obnoxious headphone-wearer or me.