Friday, February 09, 2007

Things People Should and Shouldn't Do

  1. People should have their headlights on when it's raining.
  2. People who have the right-of-way at a four-way stop shouldn't wait until my car has come to a complete stop before they lazily move out into the intersection.
  3. People should go the speed limit unless they have a really good reason not to.
  4. People should have their left-turn-signal on while waiting at a red light when I'm turning left across from them.
  5. People shouldn't smoke and walk slowly in front of me down a busy sidewalk.
  6. People shouldn't abruptly stop walking forcing me to run into them or others.
  7. People shouldn't come out of a shop door at full-speed without checking if there is traffic on the sidewalk.
  8. People should play their music quietly on BART.
  9. People should save their loud, boring phone converations for when I'm not sitting directly in front of them trying to read quietly.
  10. People shouldn't walk into the restaurant where I'm eating lunch and loudly harrass the staff with colorful epithets.
  11. People should learn more than one song before spending all afternoon singing outside my office window.
  12. People should learn not to slam their apartment doors.
  13. People should leave me comments about other things people should or shouldn't do.

9 comments:

  1. People should be on time when they promise to meet you somewhere.
    People should stay in their own lanes when driving.
    People should not be so lazy all the time and just sit around doing nothing, waiting for other people to get so angry that they start to nag.
    People should not annoy me.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I really wanted to include your last one in my list too but really everyone annoys me so it kinda loses its power.

    And when I say "go the speed limit" I mean don't go 35 when the speed limit is 45 and I'm heading home from a hard day at work. I don't mind if you go faster than the speed limit if that's the risk you want to take, just don't slow me down!

    ReplyDelete
  3. I had several really good ones last night, but the Word Verification thingy wasn't showing up, so I couldn't post them, and now I don't remember what they were.

    People shouldn't laugh about my memory losses...

    awp

    ReplyDelete
  4. awp, try selecting the Other button. Then you can enter a name instead of being anonymous.

    People should identify themselves on my blog if they want.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Yes, but it's so much fun being anonymous for a change.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Just trying to help my anonymous commenters learn about Blogger...

    I get your point though, anon :-), but you can still have a cool name while you're skulking around incognito.

    *nudges jjlutfisk and points to gratuitous use of the word "skulking"*

    ReplyDelete
  7. Thanks for the skulking props!

    ReplyDelete
  8. I thought the original list was pretty good.
    People should say nice things to other people as often as they can.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Mom, you're the best.
    anon :-), you're great too. See you soon.
    jjlutefisk and 'geek, you're both super and a support for me. Congratulations!

    ReplyDelete