Do you follow "suggestive rules"?

If it is safe to not follow those rules, I don't follow them.

Especially as a pedestrian! If I am in a parking lot with painted lines for pedestrians to 'follow', I pay no attention to those and I walk where I'm most comfortable. Someone honked at me for that before, and I thought he was an idiot. Nothing says you have to walk on the stripes.

It depends on my mood and if the lot is full or not. If it's empty or there are few enough cars around for me to safely break the rules, I break them. However, there are also times when a lot is completely empty and I follow the suggestive rules.

Generally yes. Especially in your example about the parking lot. Most fender benders happen in parking lots so I drive especially carefully there.

i do if a lot of other people are around. so i don't hurt anyone.

I follow most, or all depending on how busy the place is. Even at night if I am absolutely sure that there isn't that guy or crazy soccer mom careeening across the lot like there is no tomorrow.
It was very difficult, for the record, to not sound too biased against those that do that. Very strssful on the adrenals sometimes those crazy non-suggested rule non followers.

And I was thinking about bored cops crashing into shopping carts...probably smoking crack...in the empty hours of the night.

Don't drive.

I follow most of the suggested rules to get along well with others, or to stay safe.
I am the one that tears across the parking lot if I am the only one there.

Man, I could of sworn this was a linda survey.

I do bend the rules in my favor hee hee

Usually, to be safe. If the lot was deserted and it would be quicker to ignore the lines, I might just drive straight across.

If it seems safe to do so, I will sometimes drive across parking lines. But, if there are other cars or people around, I will generally follow them.

I tend just to go straight acros and ignore the lines, but only if there are no other cars about. I'm a big wuss when it comes to parking, and will often drive right to the top of the ar park just so I don't need to park next to anyone.

For a while, a parking lot here was torn up because of construction, and so temporary lines, directional signs and cones were everywhere, to keep some sort of order and show everyone where they were supposed to drive. Fair enough, it would be a bit confusing without all that. But here's the sad part: The whole time all this construction was going on, they had a bunch of security cars driving around the parking lot.

Are people really that stupid that they can't follow signs and lines and cones without security cars to follow too?

If there's no one around, what's the point?

I will generally follow suggestions.... unless it's unreasonable.

you can get ticketed for doing that kind of stuff; I don't think "suggested" is appropriate.

I do what i want when i want thanks

I don't think they ticket on private property here by me. Unless there is an accident and someone calls the poklice, I have never in my life heard getting tickets in parking ots. I don't remember my Rules of the Road, but maybe it varies from state to state?

Are people really that stupid that they can't follow signs and lines and cones without security cars to follow too?

I don't think its that. Its not stupidity, its knowing that there aren't any consequences for not following those lines. The security guards are there to keep the construction guys safe.

In MD parking lots even have stop signs. As long as parking lots have defined lanes and traffic control measures, cops can ticket; that's how the magistrate explained it to me when I go a ticket for running a stop sign. Of course, I'm equally positive States do vary. I just can't see complete lawlessness in parking lots.

The construction was going on behind a huge fence, where a portion of the parking lot was closed off. Are there any less consequences for not following temporary lines than permanent ones?

Yes, we have stop signs, but there is almost chaos around here. It isn't near as bad, I noticed, as it used to be. Maybe there are tickets being given out.

Most of whatever is safe and sensible.

Outside of the parking lot I consider rules suggestions too.

On the other hand they can create their own laws like forbidding shirts with particular political sentiments.

Parking lots do have stop signs here in California, but I don't know if it's enforceable or not.

ALL rules are just suggestions... Democrats consider rules that you should pay taxes as only suggestions (just look at Obama's appointees)... So if the can do it why can't the rest of us? Another example, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS... According to the LWLs who want them to stay and make them legal, our immigration laws should be ignored... so therefore one can only thing that "Fools follow rules"...

If you have a conscience, you don't need laws.

Depends. If I'm drunk you can't suggest anything to me.