I hate that. I always wave the car through when they try and do that - unless there is no traffic at all... Then I wave "thanks" and proceed, but with a worried look on my face so they know that I'm like "Yeah, I get you're trying to be nice, but that's really unsafe actually".
I hate confrontation but I actually yelled quite angrily at a driver once for stopping, insisting that I cross. I had already stopped (on my bike) and she absolutely refused to go, despite traffic in the other direction not stopping. She was oblivious that even if I wanted to go, I couldn't. When I finally frantically yelled and pointed this out she threw up her arms and gunned it, engine revving like mad. Her day was ruined!
Thankfully, that is one of exactly two negative experiences I have had in about 3000 km of cycling in the past ~13 months! And that is positive - that a novice like me has had many orders of magnitude more positive encounters than negative ones.
I hate confrontation but I actually yelled quite angrily at a driver once for stopping, insisting that I cross. I had already stopped (on my bike) and she absolutely refused to go, despite traffic in the other direction not stopping. She was oblivious that even if I wanted to go, I couldn't. When I finally frantically yelled and pointed this out she threw up her arms and gunned it, engine revving like mad. Her day was ruined!
Thankfully, that is one of exactly two negative experiences I have had in about 3000 km of cycling in the past ~13 months! And that is positive - that a novice like me has had many orders of magnitude more positive encounters than negative ones.