In NYC, honking means one thing-get out of the way now. New Yorkers are famous for gruff, honking cab drivers. The competition to get people moved from location to location with rapidity is intense.
But in Jamaica cabbies often use honking as a greeting, a form of corroboration instead of fast-paced competition.
Jamaicans want to extend a "mon" or a "rasta" instead of a "you jerk, move it!"
They want their friends to know they've seen them and their friendship is important.
How is your family? More like New Yorkers with speed and urgency, forcing out kindness?
Or are you like the Jamaicans? Cooperation, love and kindness infused into your very being?
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