Originally Posted by
FBinNY
I hope this is just a question of poor phrasing, and the intent is that no one has an obligation to accommodate you and not that we have a responsibility to be willfully spiteful all the time.
Yes.
Originally Posted by
FBinNY
If you're standing in a line that runs past a door, and someone comes by wanting to enter, he gives you the nod, or says "excuse me" and people adjust so he can get past.
I hope this is just a question of poor sentence structure.
You are comparing two very different contexts, i.e. on instance occurs with those involved inside vehicles and the other they are not. People don't need to be polite on the road, they need to follow the rules and realize that even if they were to get ahead by 1 minute at intersection a, they will probably just end up stopping at intersection b or c, so the extra time gained is for naught.
At a busy 3 or 4 way intersection, things can get hairy when some joker starts waiving people through out-of-turn. When I am involved, I put my foot on the ground and make sure that those ahead of me go ahead of me. It is not the responsibility of the first arriver at that intersection to accommodate anyone, it is his job to follow the rules. Just like the person waiting at the head of the right turn lane; it is not his responsibility to accommodate anyone, it is his job to follow the rules. Things tend to work smoothly when people just shut up and follow the rules.