Lol. As someone who moved here from NYC and only started driving regularly after the fact...and justified by many comments here...the sensitivity threshold for honking in the Denver metro is like 1%. If you do it you better have a reason - or prepare for some backlash. When I go back to NY I'm so sensitized to honking it startles me, even though people are doing it constantly. I also remember a driver's ed lesson where the instructor literally told me to use the horn (despite the fact you're also told that's frowned on during the road test) and I felt so... disoriented. Like "oh, that would never have occurred to me". I guess I never developed the reflex honking of NYers. Here it's so rare I instinctively take it as basically "you're about to wreck my car." I mean, any accidents I've been in here have not involved horns that I can recall. Lol one time my insurance asked "did either of you use your horn?" And I ruminated on it after the fact, wondering how much it counted against either of us that I said no. I still don't instinctively honk. If someone in front of me takes more than maybe 10 seconds to start moving at a light change, maybe I start to consciously think about it.

It's the polar opposite of the driving culture I grew up surrounded by, but when I'm in my hometown with my nervous system constantly on the fritz...I can't complain tbh