[Laker14]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I'll say that I had a particularly positive experience today, when I was driving my golf cart and there was a guy on a bicycle ahead of me on an MMP.

The path had some curves to it, leading to a stop sign near the entryway of one of the buildings near the Morse circle on Camino Real.

This was pretty obviously a "cyclist" rather than a "bicyclist" (who knew these people would get all elitist about the term - only here in the Villages, hah!).

He clearly knew what he was doing so I just stayed behind him, keeping a few carts' distance so as not to tailgate (I hate when people do that to me, so I make it my business not to do that to others). He sped up near this curve, slowed down near that curve, and that's when I was able to see there was some empty pavement up ahead with no one coming our way. So that's when I passed him. Gave him an upnod, he returned the upnod, and we went our merry ways, with me in front going 20mph and him behind going around 15mph (it was a pretty healthy pace).

It was basically - the perfect experience of golf cart driver wanting to pass a bicycle rider, where neither were being jerks about it to each other. Mutual respect of our chosen vehicles, mutual respect of civil interaction between humans.

Isn't it amazing how nicely things work when we apply concepts like patience and mutual respect?