The corollary to this is to accept an apology when offered. I’m amazed sometimes at how poor some people are at this. An apology just isn’t enough for them somehow. It’s a crowded world, we’re gonna bump into each other from time to time. Don’t make a federal case out of it.
Please, no. Don’t let her hijack this lovely thread with her observations about men.
I work with two people who never, ever accept any responsibility for their actions, nor do they ever apologize. It drives us batty. Apologies do mean something, especially if you fix the problem after. Then again, their apologies probably wouldn’t mean jackshit but at least it might help a little.
Someone mentioned cleaning the top of the sink handle. I’d be perfectly happy if people would just bother to clean up the mess of water they’ve left all around the sink. Do you really think someone else is going to come clean that up? Now when I lean against the counter I get wet.
Yes. My God some people can be clueless at these machines. When I go to Costco I get stuck behind people in the self check-out with entire carts full of merchandise. While there is no stipulation of “10 items or fewer” or anything like that, common sense and courtesy should dictate that you don’t go to the self check-out with a full fucking cart people. Oh, and here’s an idea, as you’re waiting in fucking line for 10 minutes, get your goddamed membership card ready. “Hey it’s my turn finally, guess I’ll need to go fishing around in my purse for a couple of minutes to find my membership card now…”
I came here to get a bag of bacon bits! Come on!
Mostly, at the grocery store, people have become aware how to use these machines and it’s not so bad. However, when I go to Canadian Tire (it’s a home supply/car parts/sporting goods/awesomeness store) people are dumber than a bag full of hammers. I suppose it’s because it’s mostly men who aren’t accustomed to grocery stores.
Scan, put back in cart. Scratch head and wonder why next item won’t scan. And God forbid you should ask for help as you stand there repeatedly and cluelessly trying to scan your next item. Pay? “Oh, let me fumble through my wallet now and try to decide which card to use.” For some reason there’s a separate swipe for credit and gift cards than there is for chip-and-pin bank cards, now we’re into Abbot and Costello territory.
This is when you beat them to death with your bacon bits.
IME, problems with the self-checkout almost always amount to user error, and a complete reluctance to read anything on the screen or take note of anything around oneself!
Stay out of the elevator “goal crease” until everyone has exited the car. THEN you may proceed to enter it.
Hold the door for someone who is clearly heading that way and is within 100 or so feet. If you’re that late and can’t wait, loosen up your schedule.
My mother would claw her way up out of her grave and stalk me if I didn’t stand and hold doors and chairs for a lady. She taught me that a gentleman should expect to do such things for a lady, and a lady should expect such things from a gentleman. It may be old-fashioned, but it is common courtesy in my book. ThelmaLou, I’m 64, btw - you don’t to quite hit the Viagra Ninjas to find it.
And yes, I have been chewed out by some younger women who have been raised to think it is demeaning. Very sad. But what is even sadder is when a young woman holds a door for me. Now that makes me feel old. 
I made it, thanks for asking. Sorry for not posting sooner, my arms have been a little sore.
It’s the observation that the men who complain the loudest that they don’t perform common courtesies for women because they have been emasculated by feminists (like that was ever our agenda) are the ones that wouldn’t have been courteous to women anyway and become utter jerks when the restraints of western law and culture are removed.
Tradiationally one rose when someone of importance entered the room. Standing when a women entered was a way of acknowledging that she was not a servant or a prostitute, but someone worthy of respect.
Okay. Why would one do that today?
100’? I hope this is a typo. It’s a 10’ radius, max.
Nope, around 100’ is not excessive, IMO. I have the five seconds to wait, but expect the person I’m waiting on to step lively. Seems a fair trade-off. Courtesy begets courtesy.
You let the elevator door close on me when I’m 15 feet from it, you’ll be close enough to hear me call you a dick. 
x10 for a subway car
Because there are still plenty of women employed as servants and prostitutes today. In some business circles, prostitutes as entertainment aren’t uncommon. At a business meeting standing when a woman arrives it makes a powerful statement that the women is there for professional reasons other than the world’s oldest profession. And she’s not the maid there to clear the table and refill glasses either.
Bullshit. I guaran-goddamn-tee you that the posters here aren’t standing when women enter the room to show that they aren’t prostitutes.
Bullshit, the posters here aren’t everyman in the world, I guaran-goddamn-tee you that. And I can guaran-goddamn-tee you that there are many places and cultures in the world that if the men don’t stand when you walk into a business conference, it’s because they consider you a secretary (or less) and not worthy of their time or respect. It may be even be a tactic to insult you or keep you off balance. Furthermore, not a single male poster here indicates he stands when a women enters the room for any reason other than common courtesy.
I forgot for a moment how very skewed your view of society is. Won’t make that mistake again.
Ah, so close, yet so far. Yes, they do it because of the rise of feminism. But that’s because they don’t want to offend those who would be offended by it. They were doing it as a courtesy, after all, and it’s not very courteous to do something people don’t like you to do.
There may be, but assuming that you might possibly mistake the businesswoman for a prostitute is itself an insult.
You do really need to get over automatically interpreting all practices you don’t like as having nefarious intent behind them.
The above, BTW, is my answer to this thread. The courtesy of at least trying to come up with a good reason someone does something before assuming nefarious intent. Or, as I put it in my profile, “When in doubt, assume the most positive possible interpretation of someone’s actions.” If you’re wrong, at least you won’t be offended and mad at them all day.
One time in a business meeting I stood up when a woman entered the room, but when I extended my hand for a handshake she recoiled and shrieked as though she’d been burned. I was taken aback at first, but then I realized that she must be a filthy gutter-whore who didn’t want to infect me with her diseases. We got along pretty well after that.