Unwritten laws of basic courtesy
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A woman in the express check out line in the supermarket, who doesn't speak any English and can't count the change and holds up the entire line! :frusty:
Never fails that no matter what grocery store you go to, the express check out is never express.
Never fails that no matter what grocery store you go to, the express check out is never express.
Some people (mostly seniors) still pay with cash and often they fumble with the coins. Sometimes they spend minutes looking for that last dime or quarter in which case I just pay it for them so we could get on with the rest of our lives.
That's called: Smallenfreudening
1. The joy of falling into debt in small increments.
2. A somewhat douchey attempt at a viral marketing campaign by VISA, involving created twitter accounts, urban dictionary entries, a "history of smallenfreuden" video, a creepy hockey commercial, and being generally pretentiously mysterious. The word is a loanword only insofar as VISA created it specifically for the campaign.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Smallenfreuden
The whole idea of cottage country is to get away from the sounds, noises and pollution of the city. That's extremely the opposite of what cottage country is supposed to be about.
The city of Vaughan puts recycling blue boxes beside the postal boxes so you can throw all the junk mail in there when you're getting your mail.
Lawn mowing noisy? Never. Surely it's the engine noise that's objectionable. Same with snow removal. I cannot believe a bit of shovel scraping disturbs anyone's peace, any more than the whir of a pushmower.
If a debate about considering others is going to be reduced to what specific activities are objectionable, it's best to be accurate and not assume we're all the same. It's the leaf-blower not the leaf removal that's the problem, and if you're hired to do a half dozen properties by people who want to enjoy their weekends without doing leaf clearing you don't much care that you're disturbing a neighbourhood full of shift workers mid-morning, although your unthinking client should. Just like the guy who is doing afternoons and evenings all holiday weekend and thinks he 'needs' to power up his LawnBoy Saturday morning. His neighbours could help him and themselves at a better time.
The unwritten law is Think of Others First, and Make it Good With Them. Making Good Afterwards is Always Harder.
My increasingly hectic life, including life with small kids, means that I have to do my household chores as time permits. I was out banging away putting up a new door to my backyard fence yesterday at 8am. I've been known to mow my lawn at 6pm on Sunday evening too.
I disagree with this being considered "rude"... A cottage is for vacationing. Just because you want to unwind peacefully on your vacation doesn't mean your neighbors want to (or should have to).
Having said that, there's obviously a difference between sitting around a bonfire chatting until the wee hours of the morning, and blasting music all night long..
I personally don't use my ski boat that much, but my neighbors use theirs plenty. While it's not the most pleasant sound in the world, one should try to think of the sound of a boat engine as being the sound of some people, often with their kids, having fun..
Which means you do nothing noisy enough for anyone to hear beyond your fence, right?
Oh man. I wish I wasn't eating while reading this!
Cereal & Milk. Meet laptop screen. I couldn't turn away fast enough!
That's annoying, but not really a problem when you've played offensive tackle.
What I find truly despicable are the assholes who don't offer their seats to pregnant ladies or the elderly.
If you want total peace and quiet, you take a tent, and go way the fuck out into the middle of nowhere and camp.
When you go to a cottage you are not escaping from civilization. You are moving from a work-oriented world to a play-oriented world, that is just as full of other people. Cottages are for leisure activities, and while some try and maintain the illusion that they are out in the wild far from the city, the reality is that most cottages are built in fairly densely populated (by other cottagers) places.
You can't get away from the boat engines at a cottage and you should expect to hear children yelling and shrieking as they jump into the water. That said, there is an unwritten rule that you do not blast music your neighbours can hear once the dusk has faded to darkness, and certainly not every single day at other times either--and really, if you have a loud noisy party at your cottage you should invite your neighbours to it, just as you would in the city. Otherwise you turn down your music once the darkness has set in and enjoy your beers quietly around the fire assuming the mosquitos haven't chased you indoors anyway.
When you go to a cottage you are not escaping from civilization. You are moving from a work-oriented world to a play-oriented world, that is just as full of other people. Cottages are for leisure activities, and while some try and maintain the illusion that they are out in the wild far from the city, the reality is that most cottages are built in fairly densely populated (by other cottagers) places.
You can't get away from the boat engines at a cottage and you should expect to hear children yelling and shrieking as they jump into the water. That said, there is an unwritten rule that you do not blast music your neighbours can hear once the dusk has faded to darkness, and certainly not every single day at other times either--and really, if you have a loud noisy party at your cottage you should invite your neighbours to it, just as you would in the city. Otherwise you turn down your music once the darkness has set in and enjoy your beers quietly around the fire assuming the mosquitos haven't chased you indoors anyway.
I have shoulder checked a few TTC riders in my day for this same reason:evil:
I played RB in High School.
