Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:53
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:Quick hypocrisy check! How many of you:
1) Bring drinks or snacks into the movie theater, even though that is forbidden?
2) Drive over the posted speed limit?
3) Duck into a bathroom at a store even when you don’t purchase anything, even when the sign says the restrooms are for customers only?
Just making sure you’re all perfect, all the time.
Yes, of course I make a purchase. It's a social contract.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:48
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:Oh please calm down folks. First off, OP wasn’t even talking about red line, which is clearly for fire purposes.
In a bus lane, there is plenty of room for multiple buses to pull up, suddenly from an imaginary field trip that returns kids at 1 p.m., even if there are one or two cars in the bus line.
Well sure, but you're using common sense when DCUM people just want to be angry at someone.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:45
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Oh please calm down folks. First off, OP wasn’t even talking about red line, which is clearly for fire purposes.
In a bus lane, there is plenty of room for multiple buses to pull up, suddenly from an imaginary field trip that returns kids at 1 p.m., even if there are one or two cars in the bus line.
In a bus lane, there is plenty of room for multiple buses to pull up, suddenly from an imaginary field trip that returns kids at 1 p.m., even if there are one or two cars in the bus line.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:44
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
I've seen our school administrators and county school vehicles parked in that spot, presumably for quick errands. So clearly it's not really that important of a space/rule.
On the grocery store point, I will return it to the cart corral IF the cart corrals are reasonably close/available/accessible. There are a couple of grocery stores that I shop at where this is not the case - very few cart corrals, not easy to get through without weaving through rows of cars, etc. In that case I might leave it somewhere nearby, but make every effort not to block a parking space. That said, if I park somewhere near an orphaned cart upon arrival, I'll generally grab it and use it for my own shopping.
On the grocery store point, I will return it to the cart corral IF the cart corrals are reasonably close/available/accessible. There are a couple of grocery stores that I shop at where this is not the case - very few cart corrals, not easy to get through without weaving through rows of cars, etc. In that case I might leave it somewhere nearby, but make every effort not to block a parking space. That said, if I park somewhere near an orphaned cart upon arrival, I'll generally grab it and use it for my own shopping.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:40
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
People who park in no-parking lanes are narcissistic, full stop. They don't think the rules apply to them, they are above the rules, rules for other people. Be thankful in a way that they have announced themselves to you. You now know what, and who, they are and you tuck it behind your ear if you ever have to deal with them in any real way. Good on you OP for doing the right thing.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:36
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Do you want to be a cheater? A rule breaker? A jerk?
No, I don't think so.
No, I don't think so.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:08
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Imagine if everyone decided that things like designated parking areas and security measures were mere suggestions that one can feel free to dismiss if one is feeling lazy or otherwise too inconvenienced.
There are plenty of instances where breaking the rules may be warranted and justifiable, but breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules is antisocial and entitled behavior.
This. Plus your kids pick up on whether you follow rules. One of the reasons I'm a rule follower is that I have a family member who thinks small lies are okay. I was disgusted with this behavior as a kid and I never want my kids to feel that way about me.
They will also pick up on op framing this as a follower/dork versus smart/leader. That is a nonsense dichotomy that paints some ill mannered behaviors in positive light and it is growing in popularity.
I know a college girl who is currently stuck in this mindset of not being a pushover but she is alienating all her friends by being what she thinks is powerful and speaking her mind but she has taken that to mean insulting everyone she comes across and treating others with disrespect. That doesn't make you a leader, it makes you someone others cannot stand to be around.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:06
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Quick hypocrisy check! How many of you:
1) Bring drinks or snacks into the movie theater, even though that is forbidden?
2) Drive over the posted speed limit?
3) Duck into a bathroom at a store even when you don’t purchase anything, even when the sign says the restrooms are for customers only?
Just making sure you’re all perfect, all the time.
Some of us have red lines. Others, clearly, do not.
“Bending and breaking rules for me, but not for thee.” Got it!
Anonymous
06/13/2026 12:01
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Imagine if everyone decided that things like designated parking areas and security measures were mere suggestions that one can feel free to dismiss if one is feeling lazy or otherwise too inconvenienced.
There are plenty of instances where breaking the rules may be warranted and justifiable, but breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules is antisocial and entitled behavior.
This. Plus your kids pick up on whether you follow rules. One of the reasons I'm a rule follower is that I have a family member who thinks small lies are okay. I was disgusted with this behavior as a kid and I never want my kids to feel that way about me.
Do you have ASD? My nephew also hated small lies. One time it went like this.
Neighbor: How are you doing?
Me: Fine --
Nephew: No you're not, you have diarrhea!!
Anonymous
06/13/2026 11:59
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
I don't want to get a ticket or be in the way of emergency vehicles. I just park and walk. I like the exercise too.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 11:58
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:Imagine if everyone decided that things like designated parking areas and security measures were mere suggestions that one can feel free to dismiss if one is feeling lazy or otherwise too inconvenienced.
There are plenty of instances where breaking the rules may be warranted and justifiable, but breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules is antisocial and entitled behavior.
This. Plus your kids pick up on whether you follow rules. One of the reasons I'm a rule follower is that I have a family member who thinks small lies are okay. I was disgusted with this behavior as a kid and I never want my kids to feel that way about me.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 11:55
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:I think in this guy's case, what he did was totally fine specifically because as you note, it didn't hurt anyone. He also took I minor risk in doing it because he might have been yelled at by someone at the school, but he was ok with that risk. So it's ok. What you did was also ok (you didn't want to risk being yelled at, which is reasonable) but you need to be ok with your choice. Next time, you know you have the other option. Either one is fine as long as you are ok with the potential consequences.
What I thought you were going to ask about is when people break rules for their own convenience and it DOES impact other people. Like parents parking in the bus lane during school drop off, and getting out of their car to run inside "real quick." Stuff like that is never ok and it pisses me off when rules like that aren't enforced because it just encourages entitled pricks to keep inconveniencing everyone else. Please don't be this person.
Or the parents who feel the need to have long conversations with school bus drivers at the morning/afternoon bus stop while 20 cars pile up. Grrr.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 11:50
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:Quick hypocrisy check! How many of you:
1) Bring drinks or snacks into the movie theater, even though that is forbidden?
2) Drive over the posted speed limit?
3) Duck into a bathroom at a store even when you don’t purchase anything, even when the sign says the restrooms are for customers only?
Just making sure you’re all perfect, all the time.
Some of us have red lines. Others, clearly, do not.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 11:49
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Entitled sociopaths. The lane is also used for emergency vehicles. But the same logic you can park in handicap spaces, in front of fire hydrants. That's why they have stiff fines for social degenerates
Anonymous
06/13/2026 11:45
Subject: Smart or rude: people who do what they want
Anonymous wrote:I do what the guy did all the time. Busses aren’t there at 1 pm. He wasn’t some rebel, just using common sense.
+1