Elevator- when exiting and there is someone waiting to get on- does one exit first and then let them on- or does one let them on and then exit?
Bus- if standing at a bus stop for a long while (and you are the first one there)- do you get on the bus first- have a right to do so?
Superstore self check-out- WTF? What’s the proper way to form the line? Who has right of way? Seems like people make up their own rules… —What, me… stupid?
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
Yes, yes, not sure, and probably.
I second newtohalifax’s comment.
Elevator – Exit first/wait for people to exit. I thought this was common knowledge?
Bus – Whoever gets to the door first, gets on first. If you were waiting the longest but are too slow to the door, too bad.
Self Check-out – Don’t give a fuck, I hate those things. Cashier for me.
Etiquette answers—
1) Whatever happens, just don’t fart.
2) First come, first serve, after the old folks. People that are in wheelchairs get on last.
3) Don’t use the self-check-out. You’re clearly putting too much thought into it.
who really fucking cares there anyway.
Many years ago when my kids were stroller captives and my wife and I would be out walking with them and I’d hold open a door while my wife navigated the stroller through it (or her for me) it never failed that half a dozen strangers (of all ages) would crowd past her and through the door while I held it open. That was when I first realized that large numbers of the human race are in fact bovine-like herd animals operating on instinct. At the same time, I realized that some few of us are wranglers whose job it is to keep the herd in line. I’ve been performing this task now for decades. Heeeyaahh!! Git along little doggies!!
In answer to your questions:
Those exiting the elevator should be allowed to do it before others get on. This is not only etiquette, it is plain common sense.
Those waiting the longest should get on the bus first, but that’s just how I roll. I don’t crowd into the door of the bus – I’m not a salmon or a sardine or a stampeding bovine (see above).
Self-checkouts, like multiple ATMs, unless the store has things laid out differently, everybody forms one line. The person at the head of the line goes to the first available checkout (or ATM).
Line cutters and bovine crowders should have some manners flogged into them.
Self-checkouts = customers doing cashier’s job without pay.
Self-checkouts should offer a small discount to users for doing someone’s else’s job.
People exiting buses and elevators go first.
Yes. Yes. And there is a line….how can you not see it at the Superstore.
I like the self check outs because I used to be a cashier forever…I like to do things right ;D. And I know how I want stuff bagged. To me, they seem like a bad idea…it would be so easy to fake ring something in and stick it in the bag. There’s your discount. The workers who stand there to “supervise” barely pay attention when you’re trying to ask them something, I doubt they pay much attention while just standing there. I went through the self check out at SS once, and it asked me how many of their shitty bags I was using, and I said none. I stole 25 cents from you suckas.
yeah exactly, the bags are the payment for cashiering ourselves.
help yourself indeed!
and the only reason elevators and buses don’t have the same ‘rules’ is that the elevator doesn’t have a second door to exit from…