Interesting morning. Last night I had someone yell from a pickup truck going the opposite direction "SIDEWALK!" I took that to mean he thought I should be riding on the sidewalk, even though my being on the other side of the road caused him no inconvenience whatsoever.

And this morning I took the sidewalk/MUP for a quarter mile or so to get out of the way of a particularly congested two-lane bridge. I get up and around the bend and there's a pedestrian in the middle of the sidewalk. So I say "excuse me" as politely as you like. She moves to the right side of the rather wide sidewalk, so I figure it's safe to swing to the left and pass her, going quite slowly, mind you. Nope. Head phones in, she had no idea I was there, and as soon as I went left, she wandered to the left too. I just barely squeezed by. I didn't have time to look, but I'm guessing it probably frightened her.


-Matt