Impatient drivers

[ladyofastolat]

Since I've got a lieu day today, I thought I'd get the weekend shop over and done with, before the Isle of Wight Festival wreaks its usual havoc on the roads in Newport. Unfortunately, the havoc had already been well and truly wreaked, so I spent 45 minutes in a queue that advanced about one car's length per minute. One thing that struck me was how silent the whole thing was, with no-one beeping their horn or shouting, or anything like that. Not that I would have expected such things, of course, since all traffic jams I've been in have been just like this, even those that are obviously someone's fault, but it struck me how different this was from queues in the movies and on TV, where traffic jams always come with a torrent of noise. Have I just been lucky enough to live only in polite places, or is it just the case that an explosion of horns is just standard movie sound guy shorthand for a queue, that doesn't reflect reality?