What is one "unwritten rule" you think everyone should know and follow?
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If you're angry, shut the fuck up and do nothing until you're no longer angry.
Having a bad day doesn't mean that you have to ruin other peoples day.
When someone shows you a pic on their phone, no swiping allowed.
Don't congregate near doorways!
Let people out of the elevator/room/building/train before you get in. That way there's more room for everybody.
Accelerate up to the speed limit when in the merge lane for fuck sake. It really isn't hard.
Wearing headphones in public is code for “Don’t talk to me.”
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The left lane is for passing. If you're not passing everything on your right, get over.
Don't congregate near doorways.
You would think this one would be a no brainer. But it isn't. Can't count the number of times I've been on my way in or out of a store, an office building, you name it and there, blocking my path, are anywhere from 2 to 5 completely oblivious adults confabulating in the doorway, not near it, in it. Maddening.
The merge thing drives me crazy. I cannot tell you how many times I see the opposite. People slow-down thinking it's safer. It's not! Get a move on, moron.
The same is required for exiting or demerging to the exit lane: Do not slow down to move right, because you have to look backward and dodge people coming up behind you. Instead, accelerate and pass in front of everyone on your right and exit ahead of them without slowing until you are in the exit lane. Nobody will have to slow down for you, and you will never have to turn your head. You just watch in your rear view mirror for people on your right and drive right off smooth as silk. People from out of town are amazed by this as I cross 4 lanes of thick freeway traffic and exit without even turning my head.
The problem with the merge thing is that if you're in the right lane of the highway, going at, let's say, 65MPH and you see a car slowing as the driver prepares to merge you've got no choice but to slow down, sometimes drastically (with the danger you'll be hit from behind) so he can merge ahead of you rather than speed up and chance the dreaded merge collision. Okay, that was awkwardly put but you get the idea.
When in a group of more than two DON'T walk side by side on the sidewalks or down the aisles.
AND stop walking like snails.
Get out of the way damn it!!!
bags, BINGO! Cheeseheads live in the left lane. I drive the entire country and they are the worst.
DBQ, Walking the boardwalk here in San Diego, that is a HUGE problem. Take note, young people do not tend to give way when you are passing in opposite directions. I have taken to extending my elbow in a one man behavior modification program. The ones w/ their heads in the phone are not the only problem, some not on the phone just don't give ground. They are the entitled ones. They are getting bruised ribs. I encourage others to take note of this new phenomenon and deploy the behavior mod elbow.
When I worked in an office for a long time we didn't have a microwave.
When we finally got one, the reason why we did not have one all that time was plain for all to see.
Get out of the effing passing lane, you smug idiot who thinks as long as you're doing the speed limit you have every right to be there.
Retardo, you mean if you speed ahead of everyone, they're accounted for, and anyone coming up on the right you can check in the rearview, not having to worry about side mirror blind spots. BRILLIANT!
Ricpic, when I taught my kids to merge onto the highway I had them practice driving straight into the side of the road so they would be comfortable doing that in case there was major traffic, or they weren't quite sure it was safe. My high school driving instructor taught us to do it, but we never practiced it.
@ nick
I'm a terrible person. When I get behind people that are walking like snails, wandering back and forth so you can't pass them or who are walking in a block.....I start to mimic their walking, crouch over like a zombie and hunch along behind them until I can see an opportunity to pass, straighten upand step along past them.
Usually they don't even notice because they are so unaware of their surroundings and basically brain dead. I do get some laughs from the on-comming foot traffic and a few thumbs up.
Juvenile..I know :-)
Deb, if you have a blind spot problem then, you don't know how adjust or use your side mirrors. You should not be able to see the side of your car in them. Then all you need to do is lean your head forward or back to see the entire area beside and behind. To get over in traffic, you only have two options: you can slow down or speed up. Only speeding up separates you from traffic beside and behind. The same thing works walking in crowds.
The summary point here (so far) is: It's not Your World so consider other people. It's not Bob's Highway, it's everyone's highway. There's so much personal empowerment and rah-rah ME, and I I I, and My Personal Journey these days that basic consideration, thoughtfulness about others and, as a result, civility fall by the wayside to make way for the star of the show: ME.
I'm in the passing lane therefore MY rules apply!
I'm walking/standing here! (go around)
My feelings have priority because I'm feeling them.
Everyones' got their heads down over their pieces and won't look up to see the bigger picture. They don't have to because the bigger picture has been pixelated so we only have to encounter what fits our own perspective.
Also, some people just never learned how to drive properly. (The entire state of Washington, for example.)
I already know I'm a racist because I don't like Obama, but since I bitch about it all the time, I decided to do an actual survey for a few days of driving. I would see a car ahead on the freeway going slow in the faster lanes and forcing everyone else to bunch up behind them dangerously dodging for a way around. I would then drive up beside and scientifically decide their ethnicity to 99.9% accuracy with my special sunglasses. Sorry for the racism of my results, but 80% were Asian, with the rest evenly divided among others. Some days it was 100%. The Asian population is a little high in my area, but still well below 20%. I hate myself for discovering this, and if any of you are Asian, I apologize for these facts.
An unwritten rule that everyone should follow? Stuff you post online is public...forever.
Dammit!
Bags, thanks for the great rearview tip, but the other one blew me away.
No skiers here?
They have a hard and fast rule about exiting the chairlift. You ski away immediately. No fussing about with boots and clanging equipment, just ski away from it.
And escalators. Doesn't anybody appreciate the simple rule that when you train your sheepdogs and snow sled pulling dogs on the escalators that you trim the hair from between the pads of their feet first? One simple rule about escalators and nobody cares to follow it.
No parking two city cars in one parking space.
No tipping over of city cars in such a way that interferes with traffic or pedestrian flow. Tipping is for humiliating the drivers and should never inconvenience normal people who are not virtue signaling their religio-ecological sanctimony.
Seriously, no dumping of goopy trash then wiping one's messed fingers on the wall like ridding a boogie, so it goes, smear-boogie-smear, like finger drawn kanji "1". It's gross.
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