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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus
Then it’s just a matter of time before a golf cart driver hurls you unpleasant epithets for not yielding, as happened to me my first week living here. I innocently committed the cardinal sin of not letting a golf cart merge in front of me on Canal Street, assuming he knew to come in behind me.
Hope you stay safe and unscathed ignoring TV’s unwritten law. (You even see golf cart drivers here and on other threads talking as if it’s a given they have the right of way - they really don’t know they DON’T have it. It really is a strange phenomenon, that.)
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Can we assume that you and the cart were side by side at the merge on Canal Street? Certainly, a golf cart should yield to the vehicle already in the lane they need to occupy, that only makes sense.
What I've experienced that bothers me is when a vehicle is behind me as we approach the merge and chooses to overtake me while in the merge. I look in the mirror and see that a car is sufficiently far behind, begin the merge, and have to pull back quickly as a front bumper nearly hits me.
I can't believe people are willing to risk their nice vehicles to make a point. Sure, the heavier vehicle will win, but it will be costly to scrape my skin off their bumper.