zebra crossings

[cecinestpasunepipe]

Am I aibu to get really annoyed when people wait at zebra crossings, and then when I pull up to let them cross, just stand there carrying on with their conversation, either on their phones or in rl and look at me as if I am mad for stopping? Happened twice in one twenty minute journey today. If you want to have a conversation ffs don't do it on the kerb of a zebra crossing!

YANBU!!

Beep at them and when they look at you, wave them across in an infuriated and impatient manner.

Waiting for the other side to stop maybe? YANBU about the phones though.

I reserve my rage for the drivers who take my standing and waiting as a reason to floor it and drive in front of me.

Or the ones who drive round myself and the children in the process of using the primary school crossing.

Or the twat that beeped his horn and roared past the lady walking with two sticks that couldn't make it across the Pelican crossing before the lights change.

I just have an issue with the people who will one day kill some poor sod.

Yabu. If they dont cross then carry on.

Drivers behave far worse! My pet hate are the idiots who drive over once the pedestrian has crossed in front of them but hasn't actually finished crossing the road. So bloody dangerous.

Why is that dangerous, wowfudge? I can see it might just be if there's no-one waiting on the other half of the road because you might lead oncoming road users to think there's no-one on the crossing. But if the cars on the other side are stopped I can't see how it can be dangerous to move after the pedestrian has crossed your half of the road, provided of course there are no other pedestrians on the crossing.

Icimoi The Highway Code states that drivers should wait until the crossing is completely empty. If someone if halfway across, it doesn't mean that you may go.

I don't think one is worse than the other. You see many pedestrians bolting the road about 2 metres from a crossing who are just as bloody stupid.

Also, the pedestrians who don't think they have to stop at a zebra crossing and just saunter on over, expecting car drivers to be mind readers or stop when a pedestrian is vaguely in the vicinity of a crossing.

There are more cars that ignore the crossings though than pedestrians who use them wrongly.

Where does it say that, Eve? The closest I can see is "You MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing" but that doesn't really cover the situation when you've already given way and they don't need you to do so any longer. If it is in there, it still doesn't answer the question why it is necessarily dangerous.

The argument re making sure the pedestrian has finished crossing the whole crossing is that until they are on the pavement they could change their minds and turn round back to the side they started from. You have to wait until they've finished and are on the pavement. It is somewhere in the Highway Code as I remember it from when I passed my test not that anyone round my way ever seems to do it