Rude
Yesterday afternoon I parked my car on Vassar St right across from my office about the same time that two elderly women, one of whom using a walking cane, did. It was around 4:30 pm, just as people were leaving work (read: MIT) and it was starting to rain. It seems that the combination of these two factors were sufficient for people to decide that they will not let two elderly women cross the street. It got to the point that my third-world country sensibilities took over, I just hopped to the middle of the road, put my hands on my sides and stared down drivers coming from both sides of the road.
I remember reading an article in Freakonomics on a guy who started a business dropping off bagels into office coffee rooms, along with a locked pay box. The idea is for people to buy his bagels, and using an honor system put in the right amount of money into the pay box. He will then pick up the leftovers, and the box, in the afternoons. Contrary to what one may think, the higher-up white collar workers are the worst thieves. The blue collar workers make the most honest costumers.
Come on, people.