Unwritten rules...

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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If there is a line of 20+ cars turning or merging right and someone tries to sneak in down the left side and cut in, it is your duty to play defense and at all costs prevent them from getting in. If you need to speed up to close a gap, do so. If you need to drive slow to prevent a gap opening behind you, do so. Honk your horn, give the finger, do whatever you can do shame the cheater.

That is one of my pet peeves. I HATE when people try this.

[ScoobySnax]

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If there is a line of 20+ cars turning or merging right and someone tries to sneak in down the left side and cut in, it is your duty to play defense and at all costs prevent them from getting in. If you need to speed up to close a gap, do so. If you need to drive slow to prevent a gap opening behind you, do so. Honk your horn, give the finger, do whatever you can do shame the cheater.

[Trevytrev11]

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Other vehicle related rules:

1) If you are stopped while pulling out of a parking lot onto a main drive and waiting for someone to let you go, for gods sake, Pay Attention. Don't do a disservice to someone who is letting you in by not paying attention and making them look like a jack *** for stopping traffic because they tried to help you out. Be prepared and when you think someone is giving you day light take it and...

2) Always give a courtesy wave...ALWAYS.
If someone stops to let you out of a parking lot or similar situation, wave.
If someone stops so you can cross the parking lot on foot, wave.
If someone slows down so you can merge, wave.
If someone flashes you to tell you your headlights aren't on, wave.
Wave, wave, wave...someone decided to help you out, thank them by waving.

3) Use your blinker.
If you are within several car lengths and want to switch lanes, give a blinker and give it a second or two ahead of time. Don't give the blinker while as you are already halfway into the lane.

If you are going to turn right into a shopping center, etc. and there is no designated right turn lane, give a blinker. Nothing worse than having a car stop at the last second in the middle of the road to make a right turn with no warning. Giving a blinker gives cars behind you time to switch lanes and pass you without having to stop.

4) Don't merge into someone elses land and force them to slow down/stop.
Nothing worse than a guy that pulls onto a road with a speed limit of 45 and he's going 5 MPH and slowly accelerating and you have to slam on your brakes to avoid a collision. Honk at this guy and let him know he messed up.

5) On a multi lane freeway, the right lane on the freeway is for exiting and entering and super slow vehicles. Don't stay in the lane and make it impossible for other drivers to merge, causing cars to brake and traffic jams to ensue. Get in this lane, get up to speed and move to the middle. When you want to exit, wait until about a 1/2 to 1 mile prior to the exit and then get over.

6) On a multi lane freeway, the left lane on the freeway is for faster vehicles. While legally there is no "fast lane" it is an unwritten rule that the left lane is the fast lane. If you are driving on it and someone comes up behind you...move over. Don't assume that your definition of fast is everyones definition of fast. "I'm going 70 in a 65 and that is fast enough for everyone and anyone going faster than that is wrong"...BS...you're exceeding the speed limit and so are they, move over and let them by.

6B) If someone is doing the speed limit or lower in the left lane, feel free to ride their ***, flash your lights, honk your horn and then berate them as you pass them by. It's the GD fast lane!

7) If you are driving next to someone at the exact same speed and they are not a girl and are not flashing you their boobs, slow down or speed up for a second and get in their lane. No sense in forming a horizontal road block for other vehicles. You can go the same speed at the same time in the same lane.

8) If you are talking or texting while driving and do anything wrong to upset another vehicle (cut them off, drift into their lane, etc)...apologize and stop what you are doing.

9) If you are the first car in line at a red light, you have one duty...watch the light. Don't get caught with you head down and force someone else to miss that light. If you get honked at, wave and apologize and then speed the hell out of there as to not further hinder other drivers progress.

10) If you are making a right turn, scoot as far to the right as safely possible. Don't force a trail of cars behind you to stop in the middle of the street because you don't use the 10 foot of shoulder space available to execute your turn.

11) Yield means yield...not stop. Especially when a merge lane is provided. Nothing worse than a guy that stops in the middle of a merge when he has several hundred yards of road ahead of him dedicated to his merge.

12) Courtesy waves...did I mention I'm a fan.

[Trevytrev11]

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Holding open a door rules:

If it's another dude:
-5 steps away, go through the door and hold it open behind you until he grabs it or hold it open for him.
-5-10 steps, go through the door and push it open as wide as possible and continue through the door. This should give him enough time to catch the door before it closes on him.

If it's a female:
-Give her 10 steps and always hold the door open (20 if she's hot, your reward is you get to check out her back side after).

If they old or have kids or are your boss:
-give them the benefit of the doubt and give them a solid 10+ steps and hold the door for them.

***Gotta hate the awkwardness of when someone is borderline. There is a fine line between looking like a jerk and looking like someone who's too soft and sweet and somewhere in between.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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If there is a line of 20+ cars turning or merging right and someone tries to sneak in down the left side and cut in, it is your duty to play defense and at all costs prevent them from getting in. If you need to speed up to close a gap, do so. If you need to drive slow to prevent a gap opening behind you, do so. Honk your horn, give the finger, do whatever you can do shame the cheater.

Excellent post.

I hate when morons think they are special and try to do this. And then when you don't let them through they give you a WTF look, like your such a bad person you won't let them over.

I just shake my head at them or give them the finger.

[Speedy]

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Wow, Trev. Road rage?

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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One unwritten rule I always follow is this.

If I'm walking down the street, in the mall or wherever and I see someone I recognize and they say, "Hey, how are you, I always say good, HOW ARE YOU?" back to them out of politeness.

I can't stand when I say this to people and all they say is "GOOD!" and keep walking. Yeah I'm fine by the way. Drives me nuts.

[JBH3]

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Along the bathroom theme, using the "every other" rule, especially for urinals... don't be that guy who stands right next to the one dude peeing when there are 3 or 4 other spots open. Also, if you're the first guy, take one on the end rather than the 2nd one in...

If this is not genetically coded in your DNA, and therefore you are not pre-disposed to think in this manner then you may be gay lol.

....not that there's anything wrong w/ that.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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One unwritten rule I always follow is this.

If I'm walking down the street, in the mall or wherever and I see someone I recognize and they say, "Hey, how are you, I always say good, HOW ARE YOU?" back to them out of politeness.

I can't stand when I say this to people and all they say is "GOOD!" and keep walking. Yeah I'm fine by the way. Drives me nuts.

I can't stand when people say this just to say it. And 99% of the time you get the same answer, good. If everyone was "good" all the time the world would be a much better place.

And then when they say, "Hey how are you" and then I'll give the typical, "good how are you" and they don't answer back.

This one guy at my last workplace would say Hey how are you to everyone he saw. But would not answer a single person back.

[UnStOpPaBlE]

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For me for sure and some others may follow this rule is that I never take a duimp in a public restroom. I only do it at home or in my hotel room. I never know whats been on the seat and the last time its been cleaned.

[Blzer]

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All the recent bathroom posts now remind me of my old thread:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ic-phobia.html

[Trevytrev11]

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Wow, Trev. Road rage?

Maybe just a little. I'm not the kind of guy to follow someone for 20 miles for doing me wrong, but I'll honk my horn at the drop of a hat...my wife hates it. She thinks I should wait like 10 seconds at a green light before honking if the car in front of me does not go. I think they should get a solid 2 count (one one thousand, two one thousand). By then, I can look and see if they have realized the light is green and if not, they get a quick two-tap of the horn....just a little "hey buddy, let's go now, we're all waiting on you"

[Gibbz]

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Also, I have a strict rule against playing sports with girls. It just never ends well.

Agreed. Unless the girl is really good and a great athlete it just ruins everything. You're either the guy dogging it because a girl is competing or you're the jerk who's dominating some poor girl.

You just can't win.

[Blzer]

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I can't stand when people say this just to say it. And 99% of the time you get the same answer, good. If everyone was "good" all the time the world would be a much better place.

And then when they say, "Hey how are you" and then I'll give the typical, "good how are you" and they don't answer back.

This one guy at my last workplace would say Hey how are you to everyone he saw. But would not answer a single person back.

Haha, I love how my generation (including myself) does the "Whatup" thing to our buddies, but we respond with "Whatup" as well. I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that slang for "What's up?" Meaning we shouldn't respond with the same thing, we should tell them what's up lol.

Not that it bothers me, just arguing semantics here.

[Trevytrev11]

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For me for sure and some others may follow this rule is that I never take a duimp in a public restroom. I only do it at home or in my hotel room. I never know whats been on the seat and the last time its been cleaned.

I prefer not to, but when I have to, I spend a good minute cleaning it. I flush it, then I get a big wad of TP and scrub the crap out of it, then flush again, then use a seat cover or several sheets of TP folded in half to cover the entire seat.