# Confess! Tell me some of the little rules that you break. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612 "2003-05-30T19:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/41 "2003-05-31T22:20:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by malita \* > \*\*i am an out-of-the-carton milk drinker. Not against the law or anything, but mr. malita just thinks its kinda gross. > > rationalizion? I’m just lazy… \*\* Sometimes I do that, as well. Rationalization? Eh, I’m the only one who lives in the apartment. Besides, if it’s getting down to the last 200 mL or so… may as well. _shrug_ F\_X ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/42 "2003-05-31T22:39:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*For me, I guess it’s speeding. Very law-obiding otherwise (although I guess it’s harder to actually _break_ laws here in some respects!), but definitely equiped with a heavy foot, or eager wrist, as the case may be. > > The first person to make a nasty joke about my “eager wrist” gets banned, by the way. \*\* Wow. In the nanosecond between reading the first paragraph and reading the second, I was _already_ composing that joke (and assuming that someone had beaten me to it). By the way, do you drive with your wrist in Amsterdam or something? In all sincerity, I’m not sure what you mean by “eager wrist” in this context. ---
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/43 "2003-05-31T23:51:56Z")
Motorcycles. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/44 "2003-05-31T23:56:56Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/45 "2003-06-01T02:27:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by teleute12 \* > \*\*Oh, and I read fanfic. Not quite as bad as _writing_ fanfic (I leave that to my more-talented friends), but still bad, right? Oh, and I’ve used images from TV shows and movies and such in LJ icons, without the consent of the creators. \*\* I write fan fiction-_erotic_ fan fiction! I also use images from television and movies for icons and things like that. I too bring food into the theaters. C’mon, a small popcorn is what-four BUCKS? Yeesh. I squeeze from the middle of the toothpaste tube. I drink from the milk carton AND use the faucets like drinking fountains. ---
**Author:** ![teleute12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/46 "2003-06-01T02:41:34Z")
Guin - my friends write erotic \slash\ fanfiction! And, of course, I encourage them to write more of it. So, yeah, evil by proxy. I pirate music shamelessly. Without getting too much into the morality of music pirating, I’ll just say that my rationalle for this is that I listen to a lot of music, and I just don’t have the money to buy a CD every time I want to listen to an oldie I heard on the radio. Therefore, I download individual songs. When the $1-per-song thing is made available for PC’s, maybe I’ll use it and maybe I won’t. We shall see. Oh, and I have a copy of photoshop on my computer that I didn’t pay for. I don’t use it, 'cause it’s too confuzzling and tends to crash my comp, but it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/47 "2003-06-01T03:15:02Z")
I too pirate music, and apparently some of my software on my computer is pirated - I say apparently because my guy friends put software on my computer all the time, and I never pay them for it. I pray the day that the software companies knock on my door never comes. ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/48 "2003-06-01T05:31:09Z")
Other than the neighborhood children I keep chained up in my basement , I don’t violate too many laws. I speed occasionally (ok, a lot) I have been known to download music (my rationalization is that if I like the music/artist/album, I am likely to buy it. And I generally do) I have smuggled stuff into the movie theatre Oh… And I once “borrowed” a username/password for internet access. No need for that anymore though, I have cable 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/49 "2003-06-01T06:27:57Z")
I smuggle munchies into the movies. I’m all about piracy. Yarr! Once … only once, now, I logged onto a chat room using this guy’s nick and password and changed his password on him. He really sucked, though, so he sorta had it coming. When I get a parking ticket I save the envelope it comes in. On days I’m out of change I slap the envelope on the windshield and hope that the Ticket Nazi thinks that one of the other trolls has already nailed me for the day. Sometimes I don’t put my cart into the cart corral at Wal-Mart. If I have LittleSnoopy with me and it’s just the two of us there is no way in hell I’m leaving her in the car by herself and walking to the corral, and sometimes it’s too much trouble to take the cart to the corral, grab everything I’ve bought AND her and trek to the car. I eat stuff in the store before I’ve bought it too and the suggestion that it’s a broken rule is alien to me. Everyone does it! Do the stores care as long as you pay for it? I drink from the milk carton. All the time. I’m a librarian’s worst nightmare as far as returning library books on time. I happen to know that the guy that sits next to me in one of my classes cheats on every single in-class test we have and I’m not reporting him. Why? Because he’s an athlete, he won’t be punished anyway and if I turn him in my ass will probably get jumped in a parking lot somewhere by a few members of the football team (and no I’m not exaggerating). I’m a sinner _hangs head in shame_ ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/50 "2003-06-01T13:04:24Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by SnoopyFan_ > Sometimes I don’t put my cart into the cart corral at Wal-Mart. If I have LittleSnoopy with me and it’s just the two of us there is no way in hell I’m leaving her in the car by herself and walking to the corral, and sometimes it’s too much trouble to take the cart to the corral, grab everything I’ve bought AND her and trek to the car. My solution to this is to park the car right next to the cart corral when I go to a store with my little one. That way, I can take a cart from the corral when I get there, pop her in it, then when I’m done shopping, I put her and groceries in the car, and don’t have to leave her to put the cart in the corral! (Please don’t think I’m jumping on you, I’m sincerely not. Just trying to provide a solution.) > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by SnoopyFan_ > I’m a sinner Ain’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![Deej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@Deej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deej)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/51 "2003-06-01T13:45:16Z")
I have never, ever, not even one time written my account number on the check used to pay a bill. Nor have I ever written out or used a return address label on an envelope used to mail said bill. So far, so good. But my mom says I’m pushing my luck. ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/52 "2003-06-01T13:50:21Z")
I’m a habitual speeder. It kills me to go 55 or under. I feel like I’m moving at a slow crawl. There’s a stop sign in my neighborhood that I never stop at. It’s only been there for the past few years. We went years without that stop sign and never had an accident so I don’t see why they even bother putting one up. My neighborhood is such a low traffic area all you need to do is glance and go. I’ve got tons of songs downloaded on my computer and several burned cds. My rationalization? I’m a broke ass college student that can’t afford evert cd I like. Once I do get some money I usually buy a cd or two to even out my karma though. I chew gum in class. I’m the adult though so it must be okay for me to do it. I’m not the one that is gonna stick it under the desk. And sometimes I take my own snowcaps into the theater. I usually go see movies at the dollar theater where their snacks are 5 dollars a pop and they don’t even have snowcaps! A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/53 "2003-06-01T13:52:09Z")
Fireworks inside city limits. Vodka in the movie theatre. Unrepentant jaywalking. ---
**Author:** ![Dawne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Dawne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dawne)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/54 "2003-06-01T14:02:35Z")
Sometimes i eat food thats past its sell by date. I only do it if it’s not gone off but i only do it because there are four of us in the house and sometimes the only food that is left that i want to eat is a little past the sell by date. I’m sure I’ll get food poisining one day… ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/55 "2003-06-02T01:38:46Z")
Other than the neighborhood children I keep chained up in my basement , I don’t violate too many laws. I speed occasionally (ok, a lot) I have been known to download music (my rationalization is that if I like the music/artist/album, I am likely to buy it. And I generally do) I have smuggled stuff into the movie theatre Oh… And I once “borrowed” a username/password for internet access. No need for that anymore though, I have cable 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612/56 "2003-06-02T01:44:40Z")
Check out the delay on that double post… Guess that is what I get for leaving last nights browser window open, and not realizing that I had already hit submit then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-tell-me-some-of-the-little-rules-that-you-break/178612.md?page=2)