Originally Posted by
Doohickie
Yeah, I've encountered that too.
I considered starting a thread debating whether nice people are st00pid or st00pid people are nice, based on a couple of incidents on my commute home yesterday where people who were trying to be nice to me on the bike really just gummed up the whole thing because they refused to take their turn when they had the right of way. I was crossing a fairly busy 5-lane at one point. There was a gap in the southbound traffic so I went halfway, to the center left-turn lane. While waiting for northbound traffic to clear, one car in the left lane slowed down and eventually stopped, trying to let me go by. A nice gesture, but I don't trust the people in the right northbound lane to do likewise, so I waved him on. I wasn't in anyone's way in the center lane; no one was turning left. Just keep going and I'll wait until the light a quarter mile down changes, thank you very much....
That's how it works when crossing 4th St. N. in front of the apartment complex that I live in. Our main driveway is between two stop lights. One less than 1/4 mile to the south and another about a 1/2 mile to the north. With this setup it is safer to start across the street, than wait in one of the medians for traffic from the other direction to stop at one of the stop lights. And than continue across when the road is clear.