Bacon?
Gross! No, we were not talking about eating pig (or cow)...
Too many threads with bacon in them. I understand your confusion. Why just this morning I cooked bacon. It had been in the freezer for way too long, expired back in 9/13, so I decided to cook it up. I thought I was going to vomit from the smell. Just hit me wrong today. Usually doesn't do that. The taste was fine, nothing wrong with it, but I just couldn't hack the cooking smell. I wanted to cook up a whole packet as I was going to use it this week in Paninis. Strange about certain smells. For instance, my wife can't stand the frying chicken smell. Makes her ill. She can eat it, but she just can't smell it cooking. Consequently I don't get much fried chicken at home. Also did pancakes. They didn't come out as well as I would like but they tasted ok. Now I have to clean up the kitchen. I'm not terribly neat when I cook which is why I tend to cook outside. Better for everyone actually.What!!!! You need to quit drinking, messing with your sense of smell (that horn between your eyes and pie hole).
Oh yeah, horns. I've got one on the bike.
I thought I was going to vomit from the smell.
Exactly. There are occasions there is plenty of time and I will horn first while ready to evade if necessary. Sometimes I will do both simultaneously. If there is no time, I will skip the horn, sometimes saving it for afterwards just to show them I am pissed.
I will often cover the horn button when I detect something might happen (after again checking what is around me).
Not to beat a dead horse, but I just did this again today. Nowhere for me to accelerate but I "knew" a car was going to change lanes into me without looking (normally I avoid ever being in a car's blind spot when at all possible or appropriate). I already had my hand on the horn and the break. The millisecond he starting moving over (and, of course, without a turn signal), I blasted him and started breaking and since he did not snap back instantly, I held it continuously while braking and he did move back into his lane.
* There was 100% no problem avoiding more if I needed (braking harder)
* Using the horn did not interfere with my reaction in any way
* He did stop what he was doing, although not as rapidly as most people do
* He probably felt like an idiot for doing the wrong thing (I certainly would have)
* He MIGHT learn something, making the road a safer place for everyone (we can only hope)
* The horn puts other people on alert also, forcing them to pay more attention, which would be useful if I had to avoid more (for example, someone behind me, although in this case, there was nobody).
Horns can be a useful tool even if they are not a replacement for avoidance.
WTF? Why oh why does everyone assume that you can't do both?+1
Seems I said that about three times so far...
Said what?That you can use a horn at the same time as evading or without it delaying other responses. Perhaps not in a total panic where caught completely off guard, at which case it is certainly a lower priority (at least it is for me... and should be for anyone).
There's a stick poking smiley that would be appropriate.
Hmmmm, 2 weeks, 5000 miles, WA, OR, CA, AZ, UT and ID on a fully loaded ADV Bike. Never once touched the horn. Must be lucky to be alive... I did however use it during the Desert100 to get them pesky skinny bikes off the trail/out of my way, scared them so bad they pee'd themselves