[Talk Host]

One of my business partners is visiting here from Rhode Island. This morning, we were walking down Legacy Lane just below the Chatham recreation center. We were walking in the golf cart lane, facing oncoming traffic. As a cart, with two men approached, I stepped behind my partner in order to go single file to allow them to pass more easily.

They came all the way up to our legs and stopped. (not the slightest effort to divert around us) They then said, "you have to step out of the lane and onto the grass to let us pass. We called the sheriff and they told us that golf carts are not allowed to cross the white line out into the regular traffic lane." Of course, my response was that they got incorrect information. They were insistant that they got this from the sheriff's office.

I hope they had incorrect information. The sheriff's instructions for turning left are to blend into traffic and make the left. That would be pretty hard to do without cross the white line. Also, state law mandates that walkers face traffic.

These two guys have a daunting task ahead of them, educating every walker in the Villages. They will never get to their destination if they keep stopping and telling that story every five minutes.

[redwitch]

That doesn't even make sense as a rule, let alone a law. So, if there's a large puddle of standing water, a large limb, a dead animal, whatever, the golf cart is to go through it regardless of potential danger? They can't pass the golf cart going 15 mph?

Hope they enjoy informing everyone of this rule (?), law (?), suggestion by the Sheriff's department. As you said, they're going to get nowhere fast.

Would love to know why they called the Sheriff about this. Did they just move right on over without checking and a driver of a car let them know how stupid they were?

[Russ_Boston]

Red, They would have to run me over but only after I gave them a real Boston salute!

[handieman]

Rules, Laws etc. whatever happened to common courtesy

Handie :joke:

[mzmom3]

I agree with Handieman. Commom courtesy.................

The same thing happened many times with more women than men while I was walking on the "transportation paths." It was worse though...........one time when walkikng my dog two women tried to run us over. It was an awkward place on the path with a tunnel and bushes on both sides. They never even slowed down. My dog and I ended up in the bushes and then one of those women swore at us. I tell you honestly..........it made me very sad to think of this again. Why is it necessary to be mean, hurtful or overbearing? It just seems that the older we get, we'd realize the necessity for kindness and compassion instead of the other way around, right? I don't know...................................

[Shirleevee]

aha! "state law mandates that walkers face traffic."


Perhaps signs should be posted about this. Sailor and I have an electric golf cart that cannot be heard if you are walking in the same direction as we are driving.* This happened many many times on the golf paths and guess who once got the finger and once got rudely screamed at?

* Especially if the walker is talking on a cell phone or is listening to their IPod.

Shirleevee

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by mzmom3

I agree with Handieman. Commom courtesy.................

The same thing happened many times with more women than men while I was walking on the "transportation paths." It was worse though...........one time when walkikng my dog two women tried to run us over. It was an awkward place on the path with a tunnel and bushes on both sides. They never even slowed down. My dog and I ended up in the bushes and then one of those women swore at us. I tell you honestly..........it made me very sad to think of this again. Why is it necessary to be mean, hurtful or overbearing? It just seems that the older we get, we'd realize the necessity for kindness and compassion instead of the other way around, right? I don't know...................................

I wonder if it was taught to them as children, like patience and thinking about others was drilled into me.

I know this; "What goes around, comes around.".

GracieGirl

[clekr]

guess I need to start walking with a sand wedge!

[Muncle]

Unfortunately, Handie's common courtesy is not all that common any more. But even though it may not seem so at times, courtesy is still so much more common in TV than it is in the real world. That's why actions such as those reported above stand out so much. They're not the norm here. Most folks here really are nice.

[Sidney Lanier]

In every context there are always going to be people like this. They were like this in their younger days, and they have no motivation to change. So this bunch are in a golf cart; we run into rude, impatient, self-righteous people everywhere. As pointed out already, fortunately this type of behavior is relatively uncommon in TV. Fortunately....

[Talk Host]

This issue goes beyond rude and discourteous. These guys really believed that they were right and that somehow this information about staying glued to the cart lane was correct. That is what was frustrating about it. I don't think they were rude, I think they were trying to educate us to a bogus piece of information that they thought was correct.

[Hancle704]

They are full of something, and not facts.

[zcaveman]

I am not defending them but I am wondering if they are not reacting to the problem on the road behind Bob Evans. Cars that pass golf carts and cross the double line are given tickets. Also, if you are driving a car down the back road to the Walmart, you better not pass a cart (and cross the double line) or you will get a ticket.

Yes they are uneducated and boorish but maybe they just need to be told.