They’re asking for honks via their wearable sandwich-board signs, and they’re getting them.
Honks punched out by passing drivers in, more often than not, a rapid-fire staccato rhythm — beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep — routinely with a drawn-out exclamation point at the end: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
It’s become a familiar sound on Wednesday mornings along Park Road near Quail Hollow in south Charlotte during the height of morning rush hour, that of car horns, delivered in blast patterns that somehow make it pretty clear they’re friendly and supportive in nature…