There's a stick poking smiley that would be appropriate.
Yeah I searched for that, it's on the other forum. Speaking of that
(since I'm already off topic, what the heck), ya know about this two forum thing, they both have an obvious different feel to them (I know, WELL DUH MARTY!, patience grasshopper, I'm getting there), but if you were to just look at the smileys available on each, you'd think that you were on the other forum. I've tried to figure that out and here is what I came up with.
Emoticons (aka smileys) were developed to enhance communication online so that people don't take a joke as an insult and get all huffy etc etc (yeah, that works NOT!). Perhaps having all those extra emoticons is just too touchy-feely for here. "Got your feelings hurt? Get over it, I used a smiley, figure it out!" So, how did I do? ..is that about it?....anyway...
gPink, sorry to make you do all that research, my post could have been more timely, but somehow I missed this thread earlier. I enjoyed it so much that I just couldn't leave
your poke lying there seemingly unappreciated.
...now returning to the thread subject matter
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
Regardless of whether one can both honk
and maneuver out of a situation, or just the latter, I think we can all agree: For them "pesky skinny bikes", and perhaps 50% of the dumb animals (4 legged) on the road, loud horns can be an effective tool in our safety toolbox.
<---touchy-feely stuff.