I sometimes encounter people who just -stop- their golf carts, right in front of me. They don't pull over, they just - stop. No stop sign, no intersection, no nuttin. When I go to pass them I see they're on their phone.
The other day I saw a guy outside his golf cart, pushing it backward on a side street away from the intersection. I got out to help him. He stopped pushing when the cart got right to the stop sign - also not pulled over to the side, just right IN the road. He turned down my offer to help him get it off the road or at least over to the side where he wouldn't be blocking anyone who should be stopping at the stop sign.
He said where it was, was just fine.
Because of course it is. He can block that spot AT the stop sign, who cares if a car, or even a landscaping truck, has to drive into the intersection from the wrong side of the road, just to get past that stop sign? He only needed to turn his steering wheel and I could've pushed the cart 10 feet back and it would've been perfect, safe, out of the way, and cars and trucks could've easily obeyed traffic at the intersection.
But because he had no situational awareness, or even sensitivity to his surroundings, he chose to just take up the space and to hell with traffic.
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