Down with Nice Drivers!

If you are sitting in traffic, and you have the right of way, with two cars behind you, and you can either maintain your pace and make the green light or be courteous and stop right before the light to allow someone to turn out of a drive in front of you, do you:

A. Slow down even though it's your right-of-way to let the poor person trying to turn go, thereby causing you and the two cars behind you to miss the light and have to wait an extra light cycle, or
B. Maintain your speed and make the light, along with the two cars behind you.

If you answered A, I hate you.

I've decided that people who have to be "courteous," and ignore traffic rules to do so, are needy. They (the Traffic King) need approval from society around them, and to be loved by all other drivers for their willingness to sacrifice efficient driving in order to give someone a warm fuzzy and a thirty second leg-up in traffic. Only since it's the Traffic King's right of way, the person they are trying to let in pauses for an inordinate amount of time because they are (rightfully) hesitant to turn in front of a moving car when they are uncertain the Traffic King will really stop for them. So we all wait so TK can get his gratitude- filled wave from the car he let in. Only if they try to let me in, I refuse. I didn't ask for you to ignore traffic laws for me, and you get no thank you wave from me. Because courteous driving extends beyond that one car. It extends to everyone on the road.

That's not to say I don't appreciate someone letting me in. I think that in cases of merging you should be aware of your surroundings and allow for merging cars in reasonable amounts. Or when there is a line of cars a mile long behind you and the car you let in will never, ever get to leave the parking lot they are in, it's very kind and appropriate to let them in, if the cars in front of you are at a red light, or traffic is moving super slow. But only then.