I live in a city and get very fucking aggressive with car drivers who don’t wait for bikers.
The other day a lady just drove right through the bike lane, almost running me over, just so she could wait a half a block down the street at a traffic light.
Of course she only rolled her eyes when i called her out on it “oh i didn’t see you there”. You didn’t even look you stupid idiot. She just went back to petting her dog like she didn’t almost just hurt someone.
when i worked at starbucks drive thru i had people tell me they drove past like 4 other inside-only starbucks to get here because we had a drive thru
the same people who bitched about having to wait 30 seconds longer than they thought they should have to wait
There was someone trying to cross the crosswalk the other day, so I stopped (as the law dictates). 30 seconds of every other motorist in the other lane not yielding later I eventually just gave up and drove away. Legend says that they’re still trying to cross the road to this day.
This mostly doesn’t happen in Australia. Zebra crossing means stop. A lot of pedestrians won’t even check, they just walk onto the road on a crossing.
When I’m late or in a hurry, sometimes that’s my response to crosswalks. I get honked at and yelled at a lot, but almost everyone stops because no one wants the liability of running over a pedestrian.
