You have a fair amount of tupperware (or it’s equivalent - plastic food containers with snap-on lids). When you store it, do you… (as with all questions of life/death nature, this is a public poll).
You-tah, rhymes with Ma, and I live in Utah, or in an adjacent state, or have spent time in the area
You-taw, rhymes with raw, and I live in Utah, or in an adjacent state, or have spent time in the area
You-tah, rhymes with Ma, and I don’t live in Utah, or in an adjacent state, and haven’t spent time in the area
You-taw, rhymes with raw, and I don’t live in Utah, or in an adjacent state, and haven’t spent time in the area
Some other pronunciation which I’ll write about in the discussion thread, and I live in Utah, or in an adjacent state, or have spent time in the area
Some other pronunciation which I’ll write about in the discussion thread, and I don’t live in Utah, or in an adjacent state, and haven’t spent time in the area
I usually make my charitable donations all at once in June, they amount to several thousand dollars and I spread it among 8-10 charities (about $250-500 each). However, those charities apparently ‘sell’ their lists so for the last year I’ve been getting a ton of people asking me for money. I’ve kept a file of those that interested me, but I’d thought I get some Doper’s votes on who I should contribute too. So please feel free to vote for up to 6 organizations on the list who you would give money too if it was your choice. I won’t promise they’ll all get it, but you will have an influence on my final decisions. The list is not in any particular order, just the way I pulled the envelopes out of the folder I’ve been stuffing for the past 10 months.
I’m in the employee lounge looking for a lunch table. I see one further down along the wall I’m walking next to, so I pick up my pace. Then a couple of coworkers emerge from the perpendicular hallway in front of me, look to their right, see the empty table, and sit down.
Did I have any more “dibs” or “claim” on the table than they did, purely on an etiquette/cultural norm level?
A few years ago when I was in Chicago I bought a hot dog, chips, and soda from the hot dog stand near the Shedd Aquarium. I spotted a picnic table a ways away and started walking towards it with my food. As I was walking to the table a family walking down the path from the other direction saw the table, walked over to it, and sat down. The thing is, this family wasn’t really using the table, they were just using the bench to sit on and rest. There were no other actual tables around, just standard park benches, and steps and things.
Did the fact that I had a tray of food and was actually intending to use the table to eat at, and they weren’t, give me any more claim to the table than in @Leaper’s situation?
Nope, they got to the table first, so it’s theirs. You snooze, you lose. Go eat your food on a bench, or sit on the grass, or something.
Yes, people who need to use the table to eat at should get priority.
I don’t like people converting nouns into verbs.