overkill - waiting for the elderly to cross

I see it all the time. This is what I call overkill phenomenon. Something that is righteous is done to the point of being outrageous. My first example would be waiting for the elderly to cross the street. We should respect our elderly and yield to them crossing the street. Some people just over do it to the point of overkill. I was following this car trying to make a right turn on a street. There was this old lady in a walker still 10 feet to the crossway walking slowly. This car in front of me waited a good 3 minutes till she has crossed before he made the right turn. He could have finished the turn before the old lady made her first step to the street but he had to wait. OVERKILL people!