I just want clean clothes!
Up at the crack of dawn again today, but on a workday you don’t mind it so much. You can roll over and the alarm will wake you up again, or you can take a longer hot shower or maybe...
Tagged: etiquette
These are saved!
Elaine: No, these are saved. Man: All of them? C’mon, you can’t take *four* seats. Elaine: What, is that a rule? Seinfeld, "The Movie" I know there is no hard and fast rule on saving seats. I hate doing it,...
They forgot to put the bones in my arms…
Does this cheese anyone else off? You’re approaching a set of manually-operated double doors. Someone else is approaching them from the other side. (I personally walk as I drive, so I automatically go for the right-hand door) As you open...
Either I’m part Kryptonian…
… or people really need to re-think appropriate speakerphone use. Currently I can hear, to my left, someone having a call on their speakerphone. I can hear them and their other party quite clearly. On my right, I can also...
Manners maketh man (and commenters)
NYT technology columnist David Pogue had a good post today: Whatever Happened to Online Etiquette? Admittedly the subject matter has been done to death, but I still liked his column. Lately, an increasing number of the discussions devolve into name-calling...
Dear Co-Workers
Thank you so much for helping me to realize that I can shave precious seconds off of every task if I simply leave out the greetings and the please’s and thank you’s and instead just bark my requests as if...
Owie! and other gripes
While I am glad to see that I was able to walk over 2.5 miles last night and burn approximately 368 calories, my legs are really letting me have it today. I keep standing up to stretch and they’re all...
Etiquette Tuesday
I couldn’t think of a snappy word to stand in for ‘Etiquette.’ The articles are sorta foodie, but I think ‘Foodie’ works better on Friday. So without a cleverly titled hook, here are some articles that popped up on various...
“it’s a free daily that comes out whenver and costs a dollar”
Those of you in the DC area probably know about Express, the free daily that The Washington Post has people hand out on the metro, and that usually ends up liberally littering the stations. Well there was a letter to...
pardon me, oh no, pardon me
After being blocked, nearly tripped and squished again this morning, I tend to wonder what it is that possesses people to not understand the personal space rules, or merely not care about anyone’s aside from their own. Yesterday, I wasn’t...