Comment by mindslight

Other places are different. In California specifically, I saw many people with the obvious right of way actually stopping to wave someone else on. When that person still cannot go for whatever reason, they wave harder and make a big production. The few times I was able to simply walk behind a car after it passed, they invariably had some out-of-state paraphernalia on the back.

I'm surprised there aren't more rear-end accidents from such unexpected behavior, but I guess everyone is used to the culture of hurting oneself to show piety.