Minnesota Nice

I still can’t get used to cars screeching to a halt in the middle of the street to let you, the pedestrian (on the sidewalk) cross. Nice as that sounds, the rules of Minnesota nice declare that when pedestrians barrel out into the road in front of your car- we'll it's your fault if you hit them. It's nice to let people cross the street, the reasoning goes, and what kind of bastard wouldn’t yield the right-away of tons of steel hurtling down the road at 50 miles per hour to a nice Minnesotan trying to get across to the Walgreens?

From the strangeness that is Minnesota nice now comes this story. I'm getting weary of all this enforced "nice."