If you're in a drive on the left or right side of the road country, that goes for bike and walking paths too. Eg in Australia, keep left on footpaths.
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When it’s close to closing time, get out of the store. If you have items you want to buy, leave yourself enough time to check out before the store closes. If you’re bringing a full cart to the register 30 seconds before closing time, you’re an asshole.
The employees have probably been there for 7+ hours, and still have to clean, restock, etc. They don’t want to be there for one second longer than necessary. Don’t be the reason they get home even later than usual.
Totally this. I’ve never left a store after closing. It was close sometimes, like when I went in at 54‘ and grabbed the stuff and was out at 57‘ but still
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If you're boarding a train or bus let people exit first instead of squeezing your fat ass past everyone to get a good seat
It's the human equivalent of when dogs want you to throw the ball without taking it from their mouth. People need to exit to make room for people to enter.
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When shopping and it's busy, don't walk down the middle of the aisle or leave your shopping kart there.
And don't look at me like I'm the monster when I push your unattended cart out of my way.
I miss Costco having one-way aisles during COVID, it significantly improved the shopping experience.
And don’t walk in the middle of the parking lot where the cars drive. Coming from the sparsely populated Midwestern US and moving to densely populated Los Angeles, CA I don’t understand how nobody here fucking knows this (people here have zero self-awareness).
Here's a weird one:
Don't offer advice unless its something you have some experience with.
Googling someone's issues and giving them a boilerplate answer from the first thing you find isn't helpful and can actually be a hinderance more than anything.
I also hate when people get angry you didn’t follow their advice. Sometimes their advice was horse shit to begin with anyway. Just because someone seeks advice doesn’t mean they’re obligated to follow it. At least in my case, thank God I didn’t.
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You've got my vote for president.
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There's really only two of them:
- Don't be stupid.
- Don't be a dick.
They're not even unspoken, people say them all the time, but some people just don't pay attention I guess.
Unfortunately, the current capitalist system in place for most of the world is incompatible with most people to varying degrees. This leads to people not sleeping as much as they should, which makes people stupid and behave like dicks.
I mean there are lots of reasons for people to be stupid/be a dick; the point is to rise above that shit. I get it tho, I was born in the 70s so I've been watching this world backslide into shit for nigh on 50 years now, it just keeps bombarding you with more and more shit. But if you let 'fuck it I'm tired' be an excuse then you're not even trying anymore.
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If your seat reclines in an airplane, you have every right to recline it except during takeoff and landing. This one is controversial.
I’m 6’6” and my knees push against the seat in front of me even when not reclined.
I have a right to be able to travel without you causing me discomfort, and that’s a bit stronger than you having the privilege of getting more comfortable.
If you are the kind of person who asserts this “right” when someone asks you not to, you’re kind of a dick.
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Hard agree.
I genuinely never begrudge anyone reclining back into me, because I will pass that right along to whoever is behind me.
My knees disagree with you.
Your knees are in my seat space. Airline companies want us to fight each other instead of them.
Definitely!
I generally agree with you, though I haven't flown in like 20 years because of the situation with airplanes, so I happen to think if they're going to pack you in like sardines they should just disable the reclining feature cause there comes a point where any reclining at all is just making things markedly worse for the people behind you.
Yeah they want people to fight each other instead of them. What plane situation you talking about?
A combination of the TSA (security theater; jump through a bunch of bullshit hoops just so you feel safe without actually making you any safer) and airlines cramming more people into the same amount of space to increase their profits.
Zipper merging.
If your lane is closing ahead, it is better for everyone in traffic if you drive all the way to the end of the lane and cut in at the last moment.
Note that this does not apply to exit lanes. The basic rule is if late merging blocks someone from going somewhere, merge early. Otherwise, merge as late as you can.
Zipper merge isn't a thing where I live. It's advised in the provincial drivers' handbook to merge early. Some folks from other provinces are trying to change things but it's too ingrained, been this way for as long as I can remember.
Merging early when at speed makes sense, because you still have a lot of lane left before you have to merge - less pressure, more time, less likely to make a bad decision.
Merging late during slow traffic makes sense, as it allows you to align with gaps in the traffic and for the traffic to make space for you without having to actually stop.
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Don't make phone calls on speaker when in public. Not even if you hold it up to your ear.
The worst are people who do that in the bathroom. Like, hello, I'm trying to jerk off in peace here, stop polluting the air with your banal conversation.
People that do this are inviting you to join the call. Announce yourself and ask what the caller is wearing.
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