Shades of Stop

I'm not sure if law enforcement officers recognize shades of stopping, but for me it is useful to distinguish between various levels of courteousness at traffic signals and stop signs. I'm interested to know where your riding fits on this scale from most polite to most rude. (Different behavior on different rides is expected.)

These are graded on a courteous scale from most polite to most rude:

10 - Complete stop, foot on the ground, drinking out of a water bottle. Performed when you're trying to get a motorist with the right of way to go through the intersection. Particularly useful when they are on the cell phone.
9 - Stopped for a red light, but the light doesn't detect the bicycle, no cars to trip the detector. Wait through a cycle of the lights and then proceed through red as if it were a stop sign.
8 - Stopped for a red light, but the light doesn't detect the bicycle, no cars to trip the detector. Wait only until traffic clears and then proceed through red as if it were a stop sign.
7 - Near stop, still clipped in. This is the conservative interpretation of a neighborhood stop sign or a right on red light as a yield.
6 - Come to a near stop, and then run a red light. Another interpretation of a signal as a yield sign.
5 - Slowing, then rolling through a stop sign. Slowed enough to make sure no traffic whose right of way would be challenged, preparing to brake to a full stop, but continuing to conserve momentum. This is the aggressive interpretation of a neighborhood stop sign as a yield sign.
4 - While someone is blocking traffic, profusely thank waiting motorists for allowing you to run through the red light/stop sign.
3 - Blow through a red light/stop sign with the benefit of someone clearly blocking traffic (as in corking).
2 - Blow through a red light/stop sign without slowing and thus surprising motorists and pedestrians.
1 - Blow through a red light/stop sign and nearly colliding with traffic that has the right of way.

Are there other grades on this scale? Other behavior I've missed?

Commute Summary

Round Trip Distance: 18.7
Number of Cyclists seen: 34 (8 inbound, 26 outbound)
In-bound Route: Goofin' 9.6
Out-bound Route: Emory via Clifton
Weather: Favorite temps in AM: So cool that it takes a hill or two to warm up when wearing shorts and single layer short-sleeves (about 55 degrees).

Uncharacteristic Rudeness

Sunday morning as we were finishing up our usual group ride, we were harrassed by two vehicles, one behind the other, moving well above the speed limit. The second driver was laying on their horn as they passed.

This happened in Ansley Park which has very broad streets. There was plenty of room to get around us. At that point, there were only five riders remaining and we were riding no more than two abreast. There was no reason for the hostile horn.

As I caught up with the car at the next intersection, the driver closed out the space to the right making it easy to approach the driver-side window. I politely but pointedly asked the driver for an explanation of the horn. She ignored me and intended to move on as if she had done nothing.

Another rider quickly arrived and was also ignored so he popped her side mirror. At this, the gentleman in front pops out of his car -- the first car that came around us -- and tells us to stop threatening his wife. The other three riders came up at the same time and soon everyone but the lady driver was arguing back and forth.

The gentleman who jumped out of the first car announces he is a lawyer and wants to get the cops involved and sue everyone, but bluffing only works when no one can see your hand. In the heat of the argument, he mentioned we should have gotten off the road and thus revealed his ignorance of the law. Of course, we were only too happy to get the police involved and it was maybe 30 seconds before the lawyer thought it might be best if everyone returned to what they were doing.

One by one we educate those who don't know how to treat cyclists.