My
friend Cole and I devised a hilarious practical joke that also helped
us speed through traffic. When we were driving I would intermittently
and annoyingly honk the horn which would make everyone on the freeway
get out of the way and put on their poopy faces. When we would pass
the other car my friend would hold a sign in the window that read
“SORRY, DAMN HORN'S BUSTED!”. When they saw the sign and the
resigned shrug my friend would give them they almost always smiled
and waved. We thought it was a pretty funny way to speed a commute
and one day we were driving up to Salt Lake for something and we were
running the Horn's Busted scam and we cam up behind a mini van in the
fast lane that was being particularly suborn about getting over so I
really laid on the sauce with a little extra honk music for our
reluctant victim. When they finally pulled to the middle lane and we
passed we were getting ready to shrug and show them the sign when we
realized it was none other then the drafting coach and his family
thirty miles from home and heading up to the big city as well. When
he saw it was us and read our sign he rolled his eyes and mouthed
something that looked something like “Pull Spit” or something
very close to that. We laughed for so long and so hard that we forgot
to keep running the prank. The following Monday when we got to school
and were in drafting class Coach walked up behind us and slapped me
in the back of the head and asked what a couple of reprobates were
doing up in Salt Lake pretending their horn was broken. We told him
about how funny the prank was and he had to admit that he was pretty
pissed that someone was riding so close behind and honking until he
read the sign which calmed him down until he saw who it was and then
he was pissed again. He was laughing when he retold the story to
everyone else though so I don't think he was that pissed.
