Courtesy, or rather, lack of it!
Signs that you might be a knucklehead
(with thanks to Jim Dettwiler)
- You park right next to the door at the supermarket, instead of using a marked space in the parking lot like everybody else.
When the bell rings and the light comes on over the elevator, you go and put your nose next to the crack between the doors, and begin entering as soon as they begin to open, making no allowance for people getting out.
When you and your friends get out of an elevator, you stand in a clump right in front of it, yacking idly, blocking the path of people waiting to get on, while the doors close and the elevator leaves.
In parking lots, you drive down narrow one-way lanes the wrong way. (One-way lanes are the ones where the back ends of parked cars on both sides point in the same direction.)
You send emails with a blank subject line, or with a subject line that conveys no information about the subject of your message, like "Hi."
Stopping at a red light, you drive right over the marked stop line and stop with the front of your car completely blocking the crosswalk, and also blocking the view of oncoming traffic of anyone trying to make a free right turn.
You own a small business with an Internet mailing list, and when anyone is foolish enough to send you email, you put them right on the mailing list, without their prior consent.
You go through the twelve-items-or-less line at the supermarket with 27 items.
When you reach a wrong phone number and the person you reached by mistake asks "What number did you dial?" you make some smart-aleck remark, instead of understanding they are trying to help you determine if you were given a wrong number or just fat-fingered the phone buttons.
You change lanes across four freeway lanes at one swoop, passing six inches behind another car, as in Nintendo.
You return rented VHS movies without rewinding them.
When there's a lane closure on the freeway and traffic is backed up, you drive right to the end of the closed lane, then try to cut in at the head of the line.
When the bell rings and the light comes on over the elevator, you go and put your nose next to the crack between the doors, and begin entering as soon as they begin to open, making no allowance for people getting out.
When you and your friends get out of an elevator, you stand in a clump right in front of it, yacking idly, blocking the path of people waiting to get on, while the doors close and the elevator leaves.
In parking lots, you drive down narrow one-way lanes the wrong way. (One-way lanes are the ones where the back ends of parked cars on both sides point in the same direction.)
You send emails with a blank subject line, or with a subject line that conveys no information about the subject of your message, like "Hi."
Stopping at a red light, you drive right over the marked stop line and stop with the front of your car completely blocking the crosswalk, and also blocking the view of oncoming traffic of anyone trying to make a free right turn.
You own a small business with an Internet mailing list, and when anyone is foolish enough to send you email, you put them right on the mailing list, without their prior consent.
You go through the twelve-items-or-less line at the supermarket with 27 items.
When you reach a wrong phone number and the person you reached by mistake asks "What number did you dial?" you make some smart-aleck remark, instead of understanding they are trying to help you determine if you were given a wrong number or just fat-fingered the phone buttons.
You change lanes across four freeway lanes at one swoop, passing six inches behind another car, as in Nintendo.
You return rented VHS movies without rewinding them.
When there's a lane closure on the freeway and traffic is backed up, you drive right to the end of the closed lane, then try to cut in at the head of the line.