Right of Way?

As most of you know, I go for a daily stroll with Gianna, Scooter, My friend Jenny, and her daughter. We've been walking the path for a while- more than a year. The same path. And it's not along busy streets or anything. It's just in our neighborhood. As busy and the streets get is a two way street with a turn lane in the middle.
We rarely see any traffic at all. But when we do it's always a gamble if they are going to stop or not. We, being two moms with strollers don't wish to end up on the evening news always ere on the side of caution when coming vehicles approach. They (the two ton vehicles or absurdly large monster trucks) ere on the side of speeding up to avoid having to wait for us. Now it's been a LONG time since I was in drivers ed, but don't you have to treat pedestrians like they have the right away? It's not like baseball and the tie goes to the runner (or the one with the larger car). You are supposed to let them cross. One time I was actually in the middle of the intersection before a car stopped as I almost ran Gianna in her stroller into the side door. I'm not sure they saw us even as they sped away.
Now, I understand being in a hurry. And I understand that actually waiting at the stop sign you are at while letting me pass on a street that does NOT have a stop sign may very well ruin your whole day. So that's why we slow down and decide if you are actually going to obey the laws of traffic before I decide to push my daughter out into the path of your killing machine. That's why I give dirty looks to you.
And sometimes after you've gone away that's why I laugh at myself and remember what it was like when I was the center of the universe, and stopping for two moms a dog and a two babies really would have made me roll my eyes, flip my hair over my shoulder and wonder why "they" felt like they owned the road!