As a recent letter to the editor rightly indicated, there is an uptick in car honking in Honolulu (“Please don’t honk; drive with aloha,” Star-Advertiser, Oct. 2). But after returning from Israel, where for decades honking is the national pastimes (more of a pestime), drivers in our county are admirably civil.

If I hear a honk once in a while, I am not annoyed at this rare violation of the aloha spirit. In Honolulu, there is none of the incessantly strident, unnecessary honking so prevalent in Israel.

In fact, I once witnessed an Israeli driver honking at a motorcyclist even before the light turned green. So, as my epitaph might well read, everything is relative.

Stan Satz

Waikiki

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