When I see someone purposely spreading out all their stuff on the seat next to them at a crowded cafe or on a full metro car or bus so no one will sit next to them, I politely ask if anyone is sitting in that seat and then when they move all their crap, I sit right next to them.

Anonymous wrote:I know I have typos like there vs they’re on DCUM and I don’t fix it.

I do this, too. It would only take me a moment to fix them but I choose not to because I know that the people who will be annoyed by it are the control freaks who take pleasure in pointing out people's typos, and I don't care to accommodate them.

I speak in my native Boston accent with pride. Everybody hates Boston accents.

Anonymous wrote:I block the shopping carts of people that are on speakerphone at the grocery store.

I understand that, what I don't understand is how people (fail to) behave at places like Costco. Are we no longer a civilized society?

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Anonymous wrote:I mispronounce things very slightly.

Barnes and Nobles. Costcos. That type of thing.

I do that. Also if I don't like you I will call you by the wrong name

It's petty but when people are consistently rude to me, I "forget" their names a lot more. I used to work at a law firm as a research librarian. I have a law degree as well as a masters in library sciences, and my job was to help firm attorney's with research as well as to train new associates on research techniques and our resources. Most of the associates I trained were great, had some humility about the fact that they were brand new and had a lot to learn, and were respectful of the fact that I was a very experience professional who was there to show them the ropes.

But there were a few little pissants who believed that because I was "support staff" and they were billing attorneys, they could treat me like dirt. I simply never learned any of their names. The best would be when I would do this in front of a department head or other firm leadership who these jerks of course wanted to impress. I had great relationships with all of those folks because I'd been at the firm for many years and done a lot of work for them -- the more senior the attorney, the more likely they were to lean on research staff for support, so we tended to have the closest working relationships with people in leadership, who needed more help because they were busier and had more power to delegate.

None of rude associates ever made partner. I don't think that was my doing, of course. But I think one reason they never did is that they came in thinking they were more important than all the people who made up the firm infrastructure and made it possible for us to do high level work for clients willing to pay a very high rate. They didn't get that, they thought it was all about hierarchies and they wanted someone to look down on.

Anonymous wrote:I annoy mansplainers/racists/homophobes and stuff. If they say something awful more than once I will put on the sweetest most innocent voice and ask them damning questions like “oh interesting what do you mean by that?”

You're just annoying yourself. Nine times out of ten the mansplainer is right.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with going slow, or holding up traffic, or not using the left lane for passing only is that you are a liability.

In many states and jurisdictions, it is considered aggressive driving and punishable by law. Seems many of you need driving school. NP here.

You might be including me in those who need driving school. I do not, and I would guess that posters here agree more than they disagree. The poster who does the passive aggressive thing about slowing down does not do it in the left lane. Nobody is advocating for that. Except in the case of going slowly in the passing lane so that cars are passing you on the right, going the speed limit is never illegal. You can even go *under* the speed limit, even if you are slowing things down, if you are using flashers.

Unless I'm on a residential road I try not to hold up traffic. Like, I will slow way down if it's a short passing lane, and I always go at least five over on freeways. But people really do need to get a grip and be more patient. To say the people going the speed limit are the ones causing accidents is absurd.

You are being a passive aggressive driver, and that is punishable by law in many states and jurisdictions.

It is not. Where do people come up with this ridiculous stuff?

You truly need to get out more.

why because then PP would see where people are coming up with ridiculous stuff like "passive agressive driving is punishable by law?"

Anonymous wrote:Go the speed limit if someone is tailgating. They can go around me

haha.. i do that too. on the backroads, either speed limit or 2-3 miles below limit. that drives tailgaters nuts but i don't give f.

I know I have typos like there vs they’re on DCUM and I don’t fix it.

I block the shopping carts of people that are on speakerphone at the grocery store.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with going slow, or holding up traffic, or not using the left lane for passing only is that you are a liability.

In many states and jurisdictions, it is considered aggressive driving and punishable by law. Seems many of you need driving school. NP here.

You might be including me in those who need driving school. I do not, and I would guess that posters here agree more than they disagree. The poster who does the passive aggressive thing about slowing down does not do it in the left lane. Nobody is advocating for that. Except in the case of going slowly in the passing lane so that cars are passing you on the right, going the speed limit is never illegal. You can even go *under* the speed limit, even if you are slowing things down, if you are using flashers.

Unless I'm on a residential road I try not to hold up traffic. Like, I will slow way down if it's a short passing lane, and I always go at least five over on freeways. But people really do need to get a grip and be more patient. To say the people going the speed limit are the ones causing accidents is absurd.

You are being a passive aggressive driver, and that is punishable by law in many states and jurisdictions.

It is not. Where do people come up with this ridiculous stuff?

You truly need to get out more.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with going slow, or holding up traffic, or not using the left lane for passing only is that you are a liability.

In many states and jurisdictions, it is considered aggressive driving and punishable by law. Seems many of you need driving school. NP here.

You might be including me in those who need driving school. I do not, and I would guess that posters here agree more than they disagree. The poster who does the passive aggressive thing about slowing down does not do it in the left lane. Nobody is advocating for that. Except in the case of going slowly in the passing lane so that cars are passing you on the right, going the speed limit is never illegal. You can even go *under* the speed limit, even if you are slowing things down, if you are using flashers.

Unless I'm on a residential road I try not to hold up traffic. Like, I will slow way down if it's a short passing lane, and I always go at least five over on freeways. But people really do need to get a grip and be more patient. To say the people going the speed limit are the ones causing accidents is absurd.

You are being a passive aggressive driver, and that is punishable by law in many states and jurisdictions.

Ha. Show me the code where "being a passive aggressive driver" is against the law. Also I am not a passive aggressive driver; when I say I slow down if it's a short passing lane I mean I'm in the right lane and slow down so that other cars can use the chance to pass me.

You can get a ticket for going waaaaaay too far under the speed limit without a good reason, and you can get a ticket for going way under the speed of traffic in the passing lane. But that's it. What is illegal (and far more dangerous!! Google it!!) in all fifty states is going above the speed limit.

You want me to show you the code for that many jurisdictions in the U.S.? Sure, wait right there.

Won't get a cell phone.

I live in a condo building with a lot of dogs (including mine). There is one set of owners who NEVER leash their dogs when they take them out into the small yard to pee. They take them down the stairs (no elevator) and into the yard unleashed, and it sucks because the rest of us have to be super vigilant with our own dogs since we never know when we're going to encounter their dogs unleashed. They will grab their collars and restrain them if they start to run or jump, but it would just be so much easier if they put them on leashes like they are supposed to. I honestly have no idea why don't don't.

Anyway, I and several other people in the building have started "forgetting" to latch the gates to the front or back areas of the building when we come and go. We know this annoys them because they've mentioned it at building meetings before and will complain that if the gate is open, their dogs will run out. Of course, if their dogs were leashed, this would not be an issue.

I know it's petty and I genuinely hope they just start leashing their dogs (and that they don't get out of the yard because I do worry they might get hurt). But it's been years of this and no matter how many times they are told to leash their dogs, they won't. We're all just fed up. So this tiny, petty rebellion is all we have.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with going slow, or holding up traffic, or not using the left lane for passing only is that you are a liability.

In many states and jurisdictions, it is considered aggressive driving and punishable by law. Seems many of you need driving school. NP here.

You might be including me in those who need driving school. I do not, and I would guess that posters here agree more than they disagree. The poster who does the passive aggressive thing about slowing down does not do it in the left lane. Nobody is advocating for that. Except in the case of going slowly in the passing lane so that cars are passing you on the right, going the speed limit is never illegal. You can even go *under* the speed limit, even if you are slowing things down, if you are using flashers.

Unless I'm on a residential road I try not to hold up traffic. Like, I will slow way down if it's a short passing lane, and I always go at least five over on freeways. But people really do need to get a grip and be more patient. To say the people going the speed limit are the ones causing accidents is absurd.

You are being a passive aggressive driver, and that is punishable by law in many states and jurisdictions.

Ha. Show me the code where "being a passive aggressive driver" is against the law. Also I am not a passive aggressive driver; when I say I slow down if it's a short passing lane I mean I'm in the right lane and slow down so that other cars can use the chance to pass me.

You can get a ticket for going waaaaaay too far under the speed limit without a good reason, and you can get a ticket for going way under the speed of traffic in the passing lane. But that's it. What is illegal (and far more dangerous!! Google it!!) in all fifty states is going above the speed limit.