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Simple Etiquette
Folks, it’s really simple: if you are going to get on an elevator, let the people who are getting off on that floor actually get off the goddamn elevator.
I’m amazed and astounded at the number of people who look at me perplexed when I try to actually get off the elevator. Let me off, you selfish bastards. It not only makes sense on a manners level, but if you are getting on and let the people on get off, you actually have more room in the small box that goes up and down.
So it has been one of those weeks… and by weeks I mean six months.
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Apr 25, 01:00 PM
Cell phone manners are horrible.
2 examples…
1.Talking on cell in the check-out lines at stores.
They COMPLETELY ignore the store employee who is trying to ask them a question, so they can get them checked and out the door.
The first time I experienced it, the gal ahead of me would not shut up long enough to provide the store employee the answer to what type of Camel cigs she wanted. The clerk kept trying to make eye contact and be polite. FINALLY, contact was made the gal removed herself from her fascinating conversation about a dude to answer.
And so, I stood there. I was so dumbfounded I didn’t react until she walked away, still gabbing.
Since then, I have no qualms interrupting their calls, to facilitate their human to human communication with the person TRYING to help them.
2. Cell phones left on during a Funeral. (enough said)