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Theo Bekkers
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TimC wrote:
> Theo wrote
>> me wrote:
>>> TimC wrote:
>>>
>>>> Heh. I take it as my civil duty to walk slowly across roads and
>>>> never rush when a car is waiting for me
>>>
>>> Huzzah! I do a fair bit of this behaviour (although being observant
>>> of aggressive tools etc)
>>
>> I hope you guys feel really good about that. I suppose a bit of
>> courtesy is too much to ask. I try not to hold anyone up any longer
>> than necessary.
>
> There's a footpath. There's a carpark into a shopping centre, and
> cars need to cross the footpath to get into it. It is required of
> cars to give way to pedestrians when entering and leaving private
> property (in fact, I believe the road regs say cars are required to
> give way to peds crossing the road when the car is entering or leaving
> a sidestreet too; but mum still tells me to hurry up and go through
> the roundabout when I'm waving peds through the roundabout). I see so
> many peds realise that a driver is waiting for them while they are
> walking along a footpath with right of way, and so they rush along the
> footpath.
>
> But why?
> I have no desire to put myself under undue stress by rushing
> everywhere. What makes the car driver fundamentally more important
> than me that requires them to be delayed the least amount of time
> possible in any given situation? Why is my going about my business
> less important than them going about their business, such that I need
> to rush?
No problem with that. I got the impression from your post that you
deliberately slowed down just to annoy the driver.
Theo
> Theo wrote
>> me wrote:
>>> TimC wrote:
>>>
>>>> Heh. I take it as my civil duty to walk slowly across roads and
>>>> never rush when a car is waiting for me
>>>
>>> Huzzah! I do a fair bit of this behaviour (although being observant
>>> of aggressive tools etc)
>>
>> I hope you guys feel really good about that. I suppose a bit of
>> courtesy is too much to ask. I try not to hold anyone up any longer
>> than necessary.
>
> There's a footpath. There's a carpark into a shopping centre, and
> cars need to cross the footpath to get into it. It is required of
> cars to give way to pedestrians when entering and leaving private
> property (in fact, I believe the road regs say cars are required to
> give way to peds crossing the road when the car is entering or leaving
> a sidestreet too; but mum still tells me to hurry up and go through
> the roundabout when I'm waving peds through the roundabout). I see so
> many peds realise that a driver is waiting for them while they are
> walking along a footpath with right of way, and so they rush along the
> footpath.
>
> But why?
> I have no desire to put myself under undue stress by rushing
> everywhere. What makes the car driver fundamentally more important
> than me that requires them to be delayed the least amount of time
> possible in any given situation? Why is my going about my business
> less important than them going about their business, such that I need
> to rush?
No problem with that. I got the impression from your post that you
deliberately slowed down just to annoy the driver.
Theo