This is so awful all the way around. I'm often afraid to leave work in Seaside during the season due to bad biking practices as well as those who walk around or running out in the roadways as if it's a wide open park in the big city. I have noticed the art of teaching children is lost in most of our society today (I say most, but not all).
One night, there were a group of kids on bikes, teens, at the 3 way stop in Seaside, taking up the whole right side of the exit, by the stop sign. I stopped, waiting for them to move, and they didn't, but they waved me by expecting me to go into the oncoming traffic side of the road. I rolled down my window and asked them to move so I could drive. They told me to go around.
The rest of the story isn't the point (although I was polite and I could see some of the kids were raised well, others not so well). I did get around on my side of the road. Most of our visitors think and are teaching the next generation that the world revolves around them.
It used to be that there were biking rules, just like driving rules. Using hand signals, stopping at stop signs, walking the bike across any road, etc. I remember my mom getting a handout at the beginning of biking season and going over the rules with me and my sister. We even had to show her our hand signals before we were allowed to ride down the road to our friend's house. I showed my kids this. Passing on the safety rules of biking just as I would pass on nutrition, exercise, rest, life lessons. Then I pray they take heed.
My heart breaks for that mama today.