On our way home from a road trip, I taught my son the arm pump to get truckers to honk their horns

I came across this post on reddit a few months ago about using the arm pump to request truckers to honk their horns while driving down an interstate. I realized that truck drivers still liked responding to the arm pump. I really had no idea.

My mom taught us this when I was young and we loved doing it then. Now, at 55, I had forgotten about it until yesterday when my 11 year old son and I were driving home from a road trip. I suggested he try it and he said he's done it before, but it's been a long time.

He tried it and it worked! A trucker honked back at us. It was awesome! We both laughed.

We did it again with every truck we passed. Most honked back, a couple did not. One even honked a shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits. I swear it was like a dopamine rush every time they honked. It made our drive home go by much faster. And we learned that truckers still like honking in response to the arm pump.