[Talk Host]

This morning at the Calumet gate, the driver ahead of me used his card to lift the gate, then he proceeded forward. I did the same. However, the car ahead of me, smashed on his brakes to wave a golf cart across in front of him. If I had hit him (like I almost did), it would have been my fault.

Nice gesture on his part, but very dangerous. If I had hit him, I would have pushed him into the cart. :redface:

[redwitch]

See this happening all the time. My favorite was when the car stopped, waved the cart to go through and the guy in the cart actually got out of his cart to read the driver the riot act on stupidity. Had my top off so could hear every word. Was even worth turning the radio down for. I loved it!

[Bryant]

Wish I could have heard that. The same thing happened to me at the Piedmont gate. The gate actually came down on the top of my car because the jerk in front of me stopped to let a golf cart pass. Whenever I am a passenger in a car and the driver looks like they are going to stop for a golf cart, I tell them to keep going and relay what happened to me. The response usually is "oh, I never thought of that".

Some stupidity quotes:

Bertrand Russell:
"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do."



Bill Cosby:
"A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice."

[cabo35]

Talk Host....you have nailed the biggest safety hazard at Village entrance gates. In Bridgeport Lake Sumter they put golf cart speed bumps at the entrance roadway and a large cartpath sign that says vehicles have the right of way. I know some, but not all, Village entrance gates have similar warnings. Would you believe that vehicle operators still routinely do exactly what you describe. I am confident that the posters in this forum are way too hip to be that careless.

What would it take to get the local radio station to run some short safety briefs on this issue?

Thanks for the post.

[Muncle]

Originally Posted by redwitch

See this happening all the time. My favorite was when the car stopped, waved the cart to go through and the guy in the cart actually got out of his cart to read the driver the riot act on stupidity. Had my top off so could hear every word.

Don't you think that might have been a bit dangerous. You sitting there with your top down ~~ the guys in the golf cart and the cars staring at your pulchritude. :yikes: Somebody's going to cause big delay, if no an accident. :hot:

[Russ_Boston]

It took almost a year but someone (Muncle) used a word that i had to look up.

pulchritude - physical beauty

Learn something new everyday!

[MikeH]

Why is it that people move to another state (FL in this case) and don't think to learn traffic laws? Maybe they never learned them, especially, who has the right-of-way. It's one thing to be courteous and something else to be an accident waiting to happen. God help us all!

[tony]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

[Sidney Lanier]

The courtesy 'game' doesn't work when people allow it to supersede the rules regarding right-of-way. I see this all the time too. If we are to yield the right-of-way to the person on the right, then we MUST accept the right-of-way when we ARE the person on the right. IMHO, people who think they are being courteous while driving when they are actually creating a potentially dangerous situation are dealing with personal issues unrelated to driving....

[jjdees]

The one that drives me nuts is when people making a right turn give the right of way to people making a left when facing each other at an intersection. Even worse, a lot of people making a left turn onto two lanes think they have the right of way for the left hand lane over those making a right. As was said somewhere along the line, you can't fix stupid.

[tony]

Ignorance is curable. Stupid is terminal.
Tony

[Muncle]

Originally Posted by tony

Ignorance is curable. Stupid is terminal.
Tony

"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. "
Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long,

[jjdees]

Lazarus Long for President!

[tony]

Lazarus for president?? I say Tony for President!!