Originally Posted by
UniChris
Actually, it is - when your best argument is literally a picnic table, it's obvious you don't have an actual case.
Enlighten yourself.
The issue is that the people who want way made for them have to tell the people they want to make way that they are even there, because of this odd evolutionary quirk that means humans have our eyes on the front of our heads and not the backs.
That's the part of the real world (both culture and law) that you seem pathologically unable to understand.
You can argue against the reality of the world all you like, it won't change the laws or facts, or your frustration that other people do things the normal way, and not the way you think they should.
Culturally, it is neither normal nor acceptable in NYC (and many other places in the world), so why are you trying to argue otherwise?
Yes, if someone is in the way and they don't realize it, you have to let them know if you want them to move. That's true, and it also makes the person a jerk. If you drive slowly in the left lane, you are being impolite. If you are impeding people on an MUP, you are being impolite. I really don't see why you are fighting this?