>>1993195I agree with this.
It's usually annoying, sometimes i refuse by dismounting, and sometimes i'll be gracious and just accept it.
It's not that different from all the other little awkward polite interactions like when someone holds a door from far out for you. It's kinda dumb and navigating it politely is just part of being a person.
It's also worth recognizing that for drivers, stopping to give way is usually a conventional and helpful thing. Good driving means stopping to let other cars in. That's almost always just helpful. Stopping to let pedestrians cross is also usually just helpful. Bicycles are different because they're more mobile and more vulnerable, but the pattern of behavior being applied to you is grounded in real life pragmatism.
>it's just the people that want to fight about itIf you're in a bitch fight with a stranger over who is allowed to be polite and who is going first, over anything, then you are one of the people that wants to fight.
