That's good advice and I usually do so. I "wobble" a bit as well and also made it difficult for her by coming off the curb 4 feet or so, but should have just taken everything as I normally do. Just thought that with the sign so close there was no way that anyone in their right mind would....oh, I just answered my own question...

Next time I will take the "whole enchilada' - that is the lane... Most times this happens I notice that it is women (no offense to women). However, last week I was leaving work and there was a guy at the ATM by my building. He saw me get on the bike when I left. He finished his ATM business and hopped in his Mercedes AMG and roared up the street in my direction and tried to overtake me at the stop sign. I had taken the whole lane there and had he gone around he would have faced much traffic, so he held back. But what was odd to me was he was not the typical "anonymous" driver - we made eye contact earler and I think he even has seen me at work before (in suit and tie vs. commuter garb). I guess cars do weird things to people.

I always ask people (when we have these kinds of conversations) "If you saw a line at the movie theater would you just walk in front of all those people and ask for a ticket?" The answer is always "no," but then I say "how is it that someone in a car will do just that when they need to merge way back down the road, but run up along a long line of traffic and cut right in at the last minute - at the front of the line" - or do what the woman did this morning?