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What’s an unspoken rule that absolutely everyone should know, but most people clearly don’t?

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  • S [email protected]

    Fight not, here, rest your head on my lap pillow. UwU

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    What if you fart? Will you warn me?

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      Put your cart back when you're done shopping.

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      I'll leave this here: https://youtube.com/@cartnarcs

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      • saltsong@startrek.websiteS [email protected]

        In general, stay out of the ducking way.

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        Confirmed; if I see a duck approaching, I will step aside.

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        • 2 [email protected]

          You're not allowed to ask people to leave after closing? That's awful, what the hell!

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          Some companies, especially bigger ones, value customers far more than they do employees. Many of those have rules against doing anything that might be misconstrued as hostile, such as suggesting to a customer that their presence is no longer desirable (even if this is done completely justifiably and politely).

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          • mothra@mander.xyzM [email protected]

            I would add an asterisk there and say this should reflect the driving/roads convention used in the country. Where I live, the driver's seat is on the right side of a car and on escalators most people stand still on the left, letting the right side clear for walking.

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            To make matters more complicated i believe (but may be wrong) in Japan Tokyo and Osaka have opposite conventions. So it can even come down to the city level.

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            • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksA [email protected]

              So many of these are "Don't create obstacles or bottlenecks".

              Return your cart, zipper merge, wait for people to get off before you get on, don't block doorways.

              Clearly, the truest unspoken rule is "Get out of the way!"

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              If you need to have a conversation with someone, don't block the entire hallway to do it.

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              • T [email protected]

                Remember to be kind.

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                I'm one of a kind. Does that count?

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                • nenathaniel@lemmy.caN [email protected]

                  When waiting at a red light, cars are supposed to stay out of the pedestrian crosswalk

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                  EDIT: Comment below is a product of misunderstanding of the original statement. I thought it was about pedestrians.

                  To be fair, at a red light you are legally expected to not initiate the crossing. You can finish it freely at any pace even if the red is in.

                  But a polite thing to do is to not enter the crosswalk if you can't cross it before red turns on.

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                  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksA [email protected]

                    No disembark! Only board.

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                    SCP-342 😉

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                    • kissaki@feddit.orgK [email protected]

                      I'm one of a kind. Does that count?

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                      Kind of.

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                      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techS [email protected]

                        You stand on the right side of an escalator/moving walkway. You walk on the left side.

                        It doesn't matter if you have multiple people or luggage, the right is for standing, the left is for walking.

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                        I think it depends though. I've seen escalators with markers to indicate standing on the left. In that scenario, I think best to do as indicated rather than insist on right is right.

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                          Let the people out of the elevator that are trying to get out of the elevator before you attempt getting in.

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                            EDIT: Comment below is a product of misunderstanding of the original statement. I thought it was about pedestrians.

                            To be fair, at a red light you are legally expected to not initiate the crossing. You can finish it freely at any pace even if the red is in.

                            But a polite thing to do is to not enter the crosswalk if you can't cross it before red turns on.

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                            The comment I left t here no longer relevant because parent and child revised their comments after the fact. This is not a healthy way to have a discourse people.

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                              The comment I left t here no longer relevant because parent and child revised their comments after the fact. This is not a healthy way to have a discourse people.

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                              #127

                              EDIT it seems to be a misunderstanding based on the misinterpretation of original statement. It was edited since then to clarify, rendering the original discussion obsolete.

                              Cars should NOT stay on the crosswalk when the red light is on. You should only drive through the crosswalk if the light is green and there is space behind the crosswalk enough to fit your car. If you stay there, blocking the crosswalk - you are in the wrong.

                              Pedestrians, however, can enter the crosswalk on green and continue crossing the road even if the traffic light turns red. It's still a good tone, however, to plan ahead and not make drivers wait.

                              Original comment preserved:

                              A Wikipedia piece on that very issue to hopefully settle us:

                              1000076005

                              Red light prohibits entering the junction, not staying there. There are some rare regional deviations, such as in New York City, but generally staying after red is not a violation - at least as long as the junction is not specially marked by yellow grid.

                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_traffic_lights

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                              • condiment2085@lemm.eeC [email protected]

                                Absolutely. And be open that you don't have experience with it!!

                                I feel like boomers are the worst about this (as a young business owner I get tons of random dumb business advice from that age group) but that could just be bias

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                                That is partially what inspired me to post this. A lot of business advice I have gotten has been staggeringly bad.

                                I realize most people have worked at a business and should know a thing or two about how it works, but I don't think many consider the huge differences between their workplace and how a small business operates.

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                                • sanguinepar@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                                  I think it depends though. I've seen escalators with markers to indicate standing on the left. In that scenario, I think best to do as indicated rather than insist on right is right.

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                                  Absolutely follow makers first

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                                    Let the people out of the elevator that are trying to get out of the elevator before you attempt getting in.

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                                    Ditto buses and subways

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                                    • M [email protected]

                                      Uh... Khakis.

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                                      "She sounds HIDEOUS!"

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                                        EDIT: Comment below is a product of misunderstanding of the original statement. I thought it was about pedestrians.

                                        To be fair, at a red light you are legally expected to not initiate the crossing. You can finish it freely at any pace even if the red is in.

                                        But a polite thing to do is to not enter the crosswalk if you can't cross it before red turns on.

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                                        Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant cars should stay out of the pedestrian crosswalk. Editted

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                                        • J [email protected]

                                          If you need to have a conversation with someone, don't block the entire hallway to do it.

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                                          One day I'm going to get the cops called on me for screaming like a maniac at the people hosting an impromptu reunion in front of the item I'm trying to get at the store.

                                          We all know that Suzanne doesn't care how little Timmy is doing, and you're really not going out for coffee sometime or getting all the kids together for a playdate.

                                          You get a polite "excuse me", a less polite one, a "I'm trying to get to the [whatever]", a 3 second soul-piercing glare, then the hamster falls off the wheel and the demons get released.

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