Originally Posted by billdsd

Again: lots of things slow people down in the road. Bicyclists are just one of many. People accept the others. Why are bicycles different?

Why is it acceptable to move over for someone parallel parking and not acceptable to move over for a bicyclist?
Why is it acceptable to move over for a bus and not acceptable to move over for a bicyclist?
Why is it acceptable to move over for a garbage truck...
A cab picking up/dropping someone off...
A delivery truck...
A cop who has someone pulled over....
Road workers...
Emergency workers...
A heavily loaded 18 wheeler going up hill....
Bad weather...
Or just plain wait for train to go by.

I'm sure that if I put a small amount of effort into it I could think of several others. The point is that bicyclists are no worse than any of these other things and not nearly as bad as some of them but some people just won't accept that they have to suffer the trivial inconvenience. It's childish.