Originally Posted by
FBinNY
That's OK. I once saw somebody make three stops on one short string of errands. Stop one, go in for a minute, come out drive the car 1/2 block to the 2nd stop, then make a U-turn and drive back to the middle of the block for the 3rd errand. The total distance covered must have been less than 50 yards + crossing the street.
People are lazy.
OTOH, while inconvenient for you, there's no rule about stopping on shoulders, and you should be ready and willing to ride around obstacles. If there were a huge pothole in your path and you had to maneuver around it you wouldn't have posted about it. Lazy or not, humans deserve more consideration that potholes, so while you may not like the behavior, try to make room in your life to take it in stride.
Maybe. Many jurisdictions do not allow people to park their cars facing the wrong way, so the folks who are driving across the roadway to access their mail boxes while facing into oncoming traffic may well be violating the law.
Sure, from a cyclist's perspective there isn't a whole lot of difference between a car on the shoulder that is legally parked and one in the same place that is otherwise legal but for its orientation. The whole thing falls under the heading of (very) minor annoyance, with the benefit of being predictable and thus easy to counter.
When I see this sort of behavior, which is almost daily, I'm reminded of the opening scenes from the movie
The Gods Must Be Crazy.