Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : The scene:

I was riding my bike on a two-lane road at rush hour in front of a school. There’s a row of parked cars at the curb and no painted bike lane, but the road’s wide enough for bikers to easily pass between traffic and the parked cars. It’s a neighborhood that gets heavy commuter bike traffic and there are at least two other bikes close behind me. Because of the school traffic and a red light up ahead, the cars around me aren’t moving, but I’m on my merry way between the parked and not-currently-moving cars.

Then this lady with her two little kids steps out from between two parked cars like ten feet in front of me. I wasn’t going that fast and was able to slam on the brakes and stop in time for her (I could hear the brakes on the bike right behind me screeching too.) Then she stops in the road, as the light changes and traffic starts to move, to yell at me for... stopping in time? About how it’s a school zone and can’t I see people are crossing. I was mad enough to yell back that she wasn’t in a crosswalk, and she was ready to keep haranguing me but I just pedaled on.

I feel like I was in the right here, but she seemed so outraged I’m second-guessing myself. Should I be ready to stop at a second’s notice if I’m near a school, even if I’m not near a crosswalk? Is it wrong for me to be moving when the cars around me aren’t?