Originally Posted by
FBinNY
This sums up your attitude very succinctly. If you remember the original issue, it related to moving over (or forward) so a car behind you could make a right turn. This isn't a question of unnecessarily stopping to waive someone through an intersection, which I agree might create problems. This is a simple question of extending a fellow road user a courtesy at no expense to yourself or any other road users.
You clearly feel no obligation to do so, and I agree that there's no obligation, but I do so anyway because it's the way I am. Sometimes it's not about finding a reason why, but not finding a reason why not.
You are assuming I feel that way, although I will grant you that it is an assumption easily made. My comments are in response to those in this thread who express discontent when someone does not let them through.
Let me boil it down for you, because you are having trouble going back through previous posts: it is dumb for you (hypothetical) to get pissed at someone else who doesn't extend you a courtesy when they are under no obligation to do so. Generally, when everyone just shuts up and follows the rules, these things tend to work themselves out. I am guessing that, in intersections with such a design which accommodates this example, the local statues regulating traffic would mandate that drivers do 2 things: 1) not ride the curb and 2) pull all the way up to the front of the intersection when waiting for a light. This would obviously allow a cyclist to pass, and in the case of there being a turning lane, this would give room for those to merge into said turning lane. No courtesies needed if everyone just follows the rules. I say this for purpose of illustration, not to be taken as a literal example.
However, this is all general and hypothetical, written as a response to those who feel entitled to courtesy from everyone else around them on the road; I do not reply these things as a matter of demonstrating my own actions on the road. Since you think I am so against extending courtesy to others, then what the hell was I thinking earlier this week when I pulled over, got out of my vehicle, and jogged across a small parking lot to let a departing car know that he had a
very low tire?
When I leave work, I often see a single amputee, wheelchair-bound veteran who, for all intents and purposes lives at the hospital, is usually on his way to have a smoke outside. One of the few enjoyable things he has left in his life. Before the next time I offer to push him out to the smoke shack and give him some friendly conversation like I usually do, you might want to let him know that I'm actually a fraud/******* who doesn't believe in giving courtesy to others.