Etiquette

Thoes dang whipper-snappers. 

Chewing with their mouth open. I don't care what anyone else does, but that's the most disgusting sound ever. It makes me sick to my stomach, and my roomate is awful about it.

Stopping for accidents can make things worse for everyone. especially if its raining or something

Bunkered wrote: 4) Not saying thank you when I hold a door open for you.

This always ticks me off.

Chewing with ones mouth open is a direct result of not having the ability to breathe through the nose, that or ignoring it outright.

Edited by X-51 - 20 February 2008 at 8:04pm

bravecoward wrote: Stopping for accidents can make things worse for everyone. especially if its raining or something

A while ago, us and another family went camping. On the way home, a car came over a hill, did a barrel roll in mid air, and came inches from our car before flipping off the road. So both both pulled over (we had trailers with quads and camping stuff on it) and my dad ran to someone's house to get a fire extinguisher while my mom called 911 and my dad's friend grabbed a cooking pot off a trailer to smash the guy's window out and try and get him out. So he smashes the window, my dad puts the fire out, the cops come, the guy get out and turned out to be an illegal w/o a license. But the cops come to do an accident report, and everyone is panicked and nervous, but they are asking everyone questions, and as they are doing this, my dads friend is looking in the grass by the car for the cooking pot he smashed the window out with. The cops come over and ask him what's up, he's so nervous he doesn't even realize it and says "nothing, i'm just looking for my pot." so the cops was like excuse me, so he repeats himself, "my pot, i lost it while getting this guy out, it was my best pot, i gotta find it". he finally caught on and was like "no, no my cooking pot, i smashed his window out with it" and the cop just shook his head and said he had too much paperwork to care lol. then he started asking my dad questions, and my dad was like "i need a drink", and he's looking in the cooler on the trailer for a soda or something (he doesn't even drink), the cops were so confused. So, moral of the story: too confusing to stop lol.
Sorry for the rant, it just kind of kept going once I started lol.

I aggree with Kickin. You should stop and help if you're needed, otherwise dont crowd.

procarbinefreak wrote: elevator etiquette pisses me off.  You let people out, then you get in.  You don't run to catch the door of an elevator or ask someone to hold the door when you're a distance away at an elevator bank with 6 or even 8 elevators. when the doors open, and someone needs to get off, you move so they can get off.. can you tell i had a job where i rode an elevator easily over 100 times a day? also, in lecture halls.  if you sit at the end of an aisle, get up early and leave so the people in the middle of the row can leave.  likewise, if you know you're a slow test taker, don't take up the end seats so we smart kids can leave when we're done and not crawl over the obstacle course that's your backpack, jacket, purse, and whatever else you felt you needed to bring to class for a test.

In the dorm last year we only had 2 elevators for the building and it pissed me off when one guy was on the elevator and he wouldnt hold it for you.  It would take an extra 5-10 seconds just to wait but they couldnt do it.   I know this is completely different then yours because you had more elevators and a job to do but your story reminded me of this.

And I agree with the lecture hall thing.


Edited by pntbl freak - 20 February 2008 at 11:21pm

actually, same thing for lecture halls, you let people out, you don't zerg rush into the hall before the class before you leaves to get your seat.  I've put my shoulder into a few people who try to get in the door while i'm in a line of people to get out.

that, and the classic one liner, "gotta get a good seat huh?" 


also, about holding the elevator, sure, I'll do it if you're hurrying, or if i'm feeling nice, or if i'm the only one in the elevator and not holding anyone up besides myself.  I just hate people who round the corner and catch a glimpse of an open elevator door and scream "hold that for meh!!!!" while trying to hang on to their precious bag of popcorn from the vendor in the lobby, and finish a phone call with their teenage daughter who had a crisis because her boyfriend broke up with her.

in general, my exceptions are limited to:

a.) people i like
b.) cute young girls
c.) handicap people
d.) people who are close enough not to be a bother




Edited by procarbinefreak - 21 February 2008 at 12:35am

Thowing the money/card on the counter pisses me off a bit too. I usually do the same with their receipt if they do that to me, but am otherwise polite and courteous to them.

I think I've been a complete dick to one customer in 8 months, and he greatly deserved it. Guys who just come in cursing up a storm (at me) because they can't figure out how to pump gas crack me up.

Edited by Bunkered - 21 February 2008 at 1:58am