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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Whooo! JJM laid out the kindling for the fire. Someone wanna hand him a match? :-)
Actually in my not-so-humble opinion this is not a male - female thing. It is a lack -of-understanding thing and even more, an entitlement thing. I do a lot of walking as well as golf cart driving and have seen plenty of folks, both genders, doing things that just makes my want so shake my head. Sure, folks have the right to drive 20 mph on the MMPs. But does that justify taking a 90 degree corner so fast that the cart barely holds the road, or even moreso (as I've seen) necessitates taking the grass so the cart doesn't roll--especially those topheavy ones one sees more and more of these days. Sure, you and your partner/friend/whatever have the right to walk on the MMPs, but does that justify you strolling two abreast while walking VERY slowly with a line of carts coming at you from both directions? You have the right to ride your bicycle on the MMP, but does that justify you (and the four folks behind you) flying by the cart on the path stopped for a stop sign without even slowing down? Sure, a faster golf cart has the right to pass a slower one on the MMP, but does that justify trying to pass the slower cart by veering into the left lane and timing it so you just barely miss the walker who, being on the left, had no way to see you coming? (I was the walker on that one--guy missed me by just inches.) Just four things I've seen recently: all ended well but with even slightly different circumstances, could well not have.
It behooves us all, no matter what we may believe the laws might be or how strongly we feel we are in the right, to use our heads out there. I've never yet paid a price for being courteous.
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OK. I can see that many of your observations are quite true. And I would agree with that general conclusion that we should all take an attitude of greater caring for safety on the various MM paths. Apparently most other posters also prefer to disregard the possibility of gender causing the observation of the original thread-starter that the women were MORE inclined to "plow through" and expect the pedestrians to move "outta the way".
.......I made my post as if that were TRUE about women cart drivers on the MMP. I have no idea if statistically there would be a gender difference about driving on the MMP. I went with that assumption and came up with a possible explanation as to WHY that might be true. Other posters chose NOT to make the assumption that there WOULD BE a gender difference, so why explain the WHY behind a hypothetical gender difference.
......I guess that I was just hoping that there would be various hypothesis expressed about gender and driver's attitudes.