Confess! Tell me some of the little rules that you break.

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[li]I usually drive 5-10 mph over the speed limit.[/li][li]If the light is yellow I will race up to it and try to beat the red, anything to avoid having too sit there and wait.[/li][li]If too many cars are stacked up in the straight lane I will drive up the center lane to get to the turn lane.[/li][li]I also occasionally affix a stamp the wrong way, but unlike the driving infractions, this one is accidental.[/li][li]I drink out of the carton. I also live alone, so I can get away with this.[/li][li]I have a copied version of PhotoShop on my computer.[/li][li]I do more SDMBing at work than I probably should (like right now).[/li][li]If “rules” is extended to include the Ten Commandments, then I am guilty of a few of these, too.[/li][/ul]

I DO. And…go YOU!!!

We probably break a bunch of car rules but might not even be aware of them:

  • in some states it’s illegal not to have both hands on the steering wheel
  • I was told the other day that it’s illegal to pull through parking spaces (so that you’re facing out into the aisle)
  • in this state (Washington) it’s illegal to leave a child under 13 inside the car while you’re shopping or paying for gas
  • do you always signal that turn within 500’ of the intersection?

I’ve been driving with an expired license since Sunday. I haven’t gotten the new one yet!

I take the speed limit as a suggestion, not a rule - I like keeping up with traffic, as well as getting to where I’m going in a decent amount of time.

Hi. I’m danceswithcats and I’ve used accounts and descriptions of major league baseball games without the expressed, written permission of the commissioner. Welcome, danceswithcats.

Jeebus, I feel so dirty!

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’ve done all these things, but writing fanfic - I do a lot of that.

And I take my own sweets into the cinema. And the version of Windows ME on this computer is off a bootleg disk made in Hong Kong, though I can’t take responsibility for that, as it isn’t my computer.

Most of mine deal with my car, mainly speeding. I drove for over two years with an expired license, and have forgotten to put the reg. sticker on my plate for about six months. There’s other stuff, but those would belong in a thread titled “Just plain illegal and damned stupid”

I also allow my students to eat and drink in the classroom. In fact, I’ve been known to bring in cake or chips to share. The Angry Candy jar is always full, though they love the trail mix I have best. The administration can bite me; if my students are hungry they’re getting a snack.

I open packages in the grocery store so my 3 year old can snack while we shop (I always pay for it). Justification: The store personnel would much rather I break this rule than have to listen to her crankiness!!

I take my own snacks into the movie theater. Justification: I don’t eat refined sugar or white flour anymore, so the only thing the theater sells that I could have would be a hot dog (if I took it off the bun, which is just messy). But, in fairness, I took my own snacks in before I went sugar free. Justification: I like an assortment of snacks, not just one giant container of something. So I go to a store that sells bulk candy (they have a great sugar-free section, too!) and get a little of this and a little of that. Also, theater prices are too damned high!

norinew, I also take my own snacks into the movie theater when I am doing my strict Atkins plan (which ain’t lately). I put together a little zip-lock bag of different nuts (macadamia, almonds, walnuts), some salted, some not, and crunch away. They don’t sell what I want, so I’m bringin’ it in.

Smuggling stuff in is a bit of a pain in the summertime, but it’s always so damn cold in there that I typically take a jacket even in summer, and I just stuff the pockets, or take a big purse.

I run a couple of the “metered onramp” red lights on one of the freeways here locally - especially on the motorcycle. On one, the light is new, the ramp dumps into ITS OWN LANE on the freeway (like, a lane that stays there for the next 8 miles…) and there’s almost never any traffic coming up the hill anyway at the times I’m on the road. It’s a really dumb ramp meter - but then, what ramp meters AREN’T dumb…

The nearly universal speeding thing - I almost never go much below 5-10 over the limit - ON THE FREEWAY. That’s important, because on city streets and in congested areas, I stick to that speed limit like glue.

I sometimes inadvertently do 11 items in the 10 item lane - but I really despise people who majorly break this rule …

I sometimes only tip 14.5% - even if the service wasn’t all that bad. Usually I’m doing this because 15% will come out to some silly amount for the check, like $12.02 or something. I tip so that my bill comes out to a nice round number.

I’ve deliberately sent bill payments in without signing the check before (long time ago) in an attempt to get the creditor not to deposit the check and give my account a little more breathing room. That doesn’t work, by the way - the checks get deposited regardless.

You know, it’s funny - I’ve been siting here trying to think of rules I break and I’ve realized that except for the few mentioned here, I’m a really dull, boring rule-follower. Take my own snacks into a movie?? I’d be incapable of such a thing - 'cause I know that I’D be the one to get caught :smiley:

I speed, and I take “unauthorized” food into the theatre because they don’t have the stuff I like, and the stuff they do have is ten times what it would cost in the grocery.

I once went about 9 months without auto insurance. And before you all screech, I was the most careful, paranoid driver on the road!!! I always took the “frontage” road instead of the highway, and all the backroads shortcuts. And was OH so grateful when I could finally afford insurance, I haven’t gone without it since.

I’ll definitely take a bottle of water into a movie theatre if I have a coat with pockets or a female friend with a purse. Movies are too damn expensive to begin with, let alone paying $3 or $4 for water I can drink at home for free. :stuck_out_tongue:

AAAAAAAH GRR GRR GRR GRR GRR This isn’t freaking ILLEGAL! They say “…may not be removed except by the consumer.” If it belongs to you…YOU ARE THE CONSUMER! IT’S NOT ILLEGAL! Many comedians have made jokes about it but IT’S NOT FREAKING ILLEGAL! AAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

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I tried to bootleg a Bobby Mcferrin concert recently but it didn’t work out due to technical issues. The justification would be that all his shows are different because he and his Voicestra improvise it all, and that it wouldn’t hurt them financially. I’m not too sad that it didn’t work out, though, as the concert was such a great experience anyway and you’d have to be there to experience it all.

One rule I’d like to break is that stupid ‘this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not … be lent, re-sold, hired out … in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published…’ What kind of a rule is that? So what if I tear off the cover and replace it with duct tape and then give the book to someone else? It’s my book, I paid for it and while I might not care much for the contents I like the cover illustration enough to want to pin it on my wall.

I just don’t get that rule.

I do have bootleg CDRS. If you want me to buy a CD of the musical, then put one out.

A woman who worked at my company was fired when I discovered she attempted to steal $3,000 from us. She continued to have her mail sent here, and I threw it out. So she threatened to have me arrested for destroying her property. Hee, hee!

that.sound.again, I used to work in a bookstore, so I can explain that rule. If we were returning small paperback books to the publisher for money back because we couldn’t sell them, we would tear off the covers and ship back just the covers to prove that we didn’t sell the book. This saved a lot on shipping, and since the books weren’t selling, the publisher didn’t want them anyway. The rest of the book was thrown in the garbage. So a paperback book without a front cover is generally one that was stolen from a bookstore’s garbage bin. Small-size papersbacks aren’t generally sold in the bargain bins, just hardcovers and trade (large-size) paperbacks.

Ummm…She might very well be able to. That one may be a Federal offence; interfering with mail delivery. I believe you’re supposed to return mail that’s addressed to someone no longer at that address, but I don’t know the letter of the law. You might want to stop doing that, just in case, though.

I’m not sure there’s a driving regulation I haven’t broken. But then, I’m a Boston driver, so that’s normal.

And, I’m another smoker who’s ignored silly smoking rules. But, I always honor the express line limit at the supermarket. And, it bugs me when other people don’t.

I was just wondering if someone was going to assume something about Netherlands that would make having an eager wrist illegal;)

::runs away before Coldie can touch that ban button::

Thanks, Porcupine. I figured it was something like that. Still amuses me when I buy a new book in English (which is not my first language), though - we don’t have clauses like that in Danish books. It just seems to me like a lot of bureaucratic breath to waste on a very specific thing, leaving the book-buying public wondering why you’d specifically prohibit people tearing their new book.

Thanks for explaining - and you’re right, I can only find it in (some of) my English paperbacks, not the hardcover books.