Quote Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl View Post
Well, that's just not my experience when I see them nodding and smiling, pointing and waving, after I signal and position myself. I tend to make very exaggerated signals though, so maybe they feel mysteriously compelled to respond to me when I look at them and broadly signal my traffic intentions.
I live in a rural town area but with lots of county highways with plenty of commuter traffic and trucks of all kinds.
Perhaps drivers are truly more clueless where you ride, or other factors are at work resulting in our different experiences.
I wouldn't say they are more clueless, they are more oblivious perhaps, and Eden probably is doing a lot of riding in the dark! when you can not depend on a smile or a wave to be seen by a half asleep person on his/her way to work.