To be fair, that sense of ‘entitlement’ exists with cyclists too, particularly when groups seem to get into training mode and start to treat public roads as training tracks.
It seems universal….
As a parent/childseat person I feel “entitled” to some space in the supermarket .. as a cyclist I feel “entitled” to ride 2 abreast etc.
I expect somewhere to lock a bike at the supermarket… if not then I’m “entitled” to block the entrance…
Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you MUST…
A lot of this seems weird or badly thought out to me… someone with an official disabled status can use the disabled parking… pop into the sports centre for a game of squash and come back out… someone with a broken leg going to watch their OH play some sport has to park at the back if any spaces are left even if the rest of the disabled and parents parking is free… and somehow squeeze out in a narrow space.
It all seems to me like it would be far easier if people could just be considerate.
I have seen a fair few of the “let’s have a head on collision” brigade as well
The other day, no cyclists involved ….
Woman cuts across and goes the wrong way (wrong side of the road) round a blind bend she must have driven 100m on the wrong side causing oncoming cars to swerve … then stops and picks up her kids parked on double yellow lines on a blind bend to shout at what were presumably her offspring who were trespassing inside a closed school.
I’m pretty certain she felt “entitled” in about 10 different ways.
I stopped (hazards on) and watched the whole thing… (wasn’t going to try and pass whilst cars were having to swerve onto the wrong side)
