One of the most important rules on How to Meet the Parents is to not sound your horn to beckon your date. You must make the effort to impress the parents and to  show your date that you honor her in appreciation of a   first date and hopefully many more. Walk up to your first date's door and show the parents that you are energetic and respectfully looking forward to going out on a date with their daughter.  If you sat outside you will appear like a nonchalant cab driver who was literally there just to pick your date up and to cart her off to a movie or to dinner.

The purpose of a car horn is not to save you the expense of getting out of your car and walking up the door and using the door knocker or ringing the bell to signal your arrival. Your date and the parents will think you are the ultimate gentlemen if you start your first date off by not sounding your car horn to beckon her out of the house. Also, the sound of a car horn is not the most romantic sound to start your date with. A car horn is used to signal to others and to pedestrians but not to signal to your first date.

Also if you choose to use the car horn to signal for your date to come out to the car, she may seem rushed and that is not a good way to start out on a date. The minute the car horn sounds out if she is not ready, you will cause her to get stressed trying to figure out if she had forgotten something. With a first date, there is always something that can be left behind and the best thing to leave behind is the sound of your car horn making your date rush to the door.

On the other hand, if you walk up to the door, you will be welcomed inside and may get the opportunity to meet her parents. If you meet her parents and make a good impression then that is a good way to start a date on a happy note. If your date is not ready to walk out of the door and begin your date, then the parents will ask for you to sit down and wait like a gentleman for her. Walking up to the door is showing her and her parents that you respect her and is not rushing her to come out running and jump over the door into your open top convertible.

The most important way to greet your first date is at the door and not from the seat of your car blowing the horn impatiently. Once you are at the door, and the door is opened, kindly greet the parents with a "Hello, How are you doing?" State the purpose of your visit and kindly enter upon invitation. Take a seat and wait for your date and then walk your date out to the car. Under no circumstances are you to start your date from the car with the sound of the car horn.