I’m a pretty relaxed person, but I’ll tell you what, nothing quite boils my blood like letting someone into my lane of the road AND THEM NOT COURTEOUSLY WAVING THANK YOU TO ME.
I almost always, out of the goodness of my freakin’ heart, let people into my lane. Like, I’m not a saint, but I’m so close I can taste the holy water. And while I don’t do these things for the ‘thank you wave’, there’s no denying one helps.
Rudeness on our roads is reaching unprecedented levels, people. Catastrophic levels. We need to do something about it.
Actually, rudeness EVERYWHERE is alarming. So here are seven other forgotten etiquette rules we need to remember. Please do the world a favour and pass this on to your rudest friends.
1. Stand to the side and out of the way when people are getting off the train.
Lordy lordy lordy. Why people insist on standing SMACK BANG in the middle of the opening train doors I will never know.
Move to the siiiiiiiiide people. Let the people already on the train get off. You standing in their way is just going to make this process five times longer and 67 times more pushy. Unless you plan on chest bumping every passenger as they get off I have no clue what you’re trying to achieve.
2. Your umbrella is a weapon of mass destruction if you’re reckless.
It’s winter. We’re all cold and want to avoid the rain. I get it. HOWEVER. Please exercise caution when you A) open your umbrella in the vicinity of my head and B) shake it off while closing it.