# Things You Shouldn't Have To Tell People **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320 "2010-02-09T19:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/101 "2010-02-12T19:13:00Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Another thing that people shouldn’t have to be told: Rush is the best band in the world! > Dude. > > hh You mean everybody didn’t already know this? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/102 "2010-02-12T19:19:32Z")
My husband used to think it was ok for men to be out in the summer with their shirts completely unbuttoned, like in grocery stores and restaurants. Dude, people do not want to see your hairy nipples while they’re that close to food, seriously. ---
**Author:** ![NoOrdinaryRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eada6e/32.png) [@NoOrdinaryRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoOrdinaryRabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/103 "2010-02-12T19:47:43Z")
The metal detector at the airport that you have to walk through? It detects metal! Failing on your first try, ok, it happens to everyone…but there is always a person needing 2-3 tries to make it through. Also, why are people standing in the security line complaining about the wait, and…not getting ready??? The time to remove your jacket and get your plastic bag of liquids and be ready to go is NOT when you get to the table that holds maybe one person’s stuff! (I may be at the airport way too much, as just typing the above made me annoyed.) ---
**Author:** ![Pandora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pandora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandora)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/104 "2010-02-12T20:54:59Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > One of the things I feel I shouldn’t have to tell people is to not stand and block aisles while shopping in stores that are always, ALWAYS busy. There will ALWAYS be someone wanting to get past you - is it that far outside your mental capacities to anticipate that this time, just like every single time in the past, someone will ask you to move when you block the whole aisle? > > ETA: Forgot to add people who stand right in front of doors and stand there, staring at you as you walk up to them, and don’t move aside until you ask them to. My God, people, what kind of arthritic hamsters do you have running your little wheel upstairs? > > (Post 23,000 - WHEEE! I really need to get back to work. 😃 ) My Grandmother is one of these people. I’m very sorry - it drives me crazy too, and we really do try to keep her moving. If whomever’s with her steped away or got distracted, please jsut ask her to move (you may have to tap her shoulder, she doesn’t hear well). Please do not however ram your cart into her back. Yes she should know better, but she’s breakable, and nearly 90 and she just doesn’t process things very quickly anymore. You can even yell at her if you want, just don’t push or shove or ram - it’s not worth an injury. [worth noting we try not to take her into stores at the busiest times, but she needs stuff, and she loves to shop so she feels very left out if family members do her shopping for her] ---
**Author:** ![StoutHearted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@StoutHearted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StoutHearted)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/105 "2010-02-12T21:02:54Z")
If you board a bus, and either can’t or won’t sit down, please for the love of god don’t stand right by the front doors, thereby forcing other passengers to do some acrobatics to get by you. Move your ass to the back of the bus. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/106 "2010-02-12T21:09:19Z")
I had a coworker that came into work every morning, clocked in, and then took a dump. Bathroom stank for the next couple hours. :eek: The rest of us didn’t want to go in there to wash out our coffee cups. Please take your morning dump at home. Sure, once in awhile you may get the urge at work. But, not every day! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/107 "2010-02-12T21:21:45Z")
> [@Pandora](#): > > My Grandmother is one of these people. I’m very sorry - it drives me crazy too, and we really do try to keep her moving. If whomever’s with her steped away or got distracted, please jsut ask her to move (you may have to tap her shoulder, she doesn’t hear well). Please do not however ram your cart into her back. Yes she should know better, but she’s breakable, and nearly 90 and she just doesn’t process things very quickly anymore. You can even yell at her if you want, just don’t push or shove or ram - it’s not worth an injury. > > [worth noting we try not to take her into stores at the busiest times, but she needs stuff, and she loves to shop so she feels very left out if family members do her shopping for her] As annoyed as I get by people who do this, I would never be rude to an elderly person doing it (and would never even consider doing anything that might even potentially cause them injury). I’m never in _that_ much of a hurry! The ones who annoy me are perfectly capable young, middle aged, and late-middle-aged folks, especially when they’re obliviously yakking away on a cell phone and blocking the aisle while they and whoever they’re on the line with discuss which brand of canned peas to buy (or worse yet, something not even related to being at the store!) Get the hell out of the way, idiots! You’re not the only ones here! But yeah, really old folks get a pass. The worst I’ll do is a cheerful “excuse me.” Usually they look startled when they realize they were in the way, get this cute embarrassed look, and move aside. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/108 "2010-02-12T22:34:42Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Another thing that people shouldn’t have to be told: Rush is the best band in the world! > Dude. Indeed 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/109 "2010-02-13T14:18:43Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I had a coworker that came into work every morning, clocked in, and then took a dump. Bathroom stank for the next couple hours. :eek: The rest of us didn’t want to go in there to wash out our coffee cups. > > Please take your morning dump at home. Sure, once in awhile you may get the urge at work. But, not every day! You can’t control when you need to use the toilet, but you can control whether you decide to use a bathroom (designed as a place where people expel waste matter) as a kitchen. Personally I’m with the guy that takes the dump, that’s what bathrooms are for. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/110 "2010-02-13T17:16:52Z")
I hope the the ‘two hours’ is hyperbole. If not, either: 1. Dude is smearing shit on the stall walls or something, and ought to be pitted for that. or 1. The ventilation system in the bathroom isn’t working properly and should be reported to maintenance, and then them pitted if it doesn’t improve. Honestly, any halfway decent ventilation should clear a bathroom of lingering odors in five mnutes. Ten minutes TOPS. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/111 "2010-02-13T18:34:25Z")
> [@Pandora](#): > > My Grandmother is one of these people. I’m very sorry - it drives me crazy too, and we really do try to keep her moving. If whomever’s with her steped away or got distracted, please jsut ask her to move (you may have to tap her shoulder, she doesn’t hear well). Please do not however ram your cart into her back. Yes she should know better, but she’s breakable, and nearly 90 and she just doesn’t process things very quickly anymore. You can even yell at her if you want, just don’t push or shove or ram - it’s not worth an injury. > > [worth noting we try not to take her into stores at the busiest times, but she needs stuff, and she loves to shop so she feels very left out if family members do her shopping for her] I’m sure you meant generic “you,” not me personally. I don’t push old people out of my way. It is irritating when old people are blocking aisles too, but they get a hell of a lot more leeway on that than healthy, supposedly-on-the-ball young people do. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/112 "2010-02-14T13:00:48Z")
Has anyone mentioned the winter sports equivalent of people getting off of escalators? Look, I am a newbie snow skier. When I am trying to get off the lift by doing a wiggling butt jump, trying not to get tangled in the chair, trying not to get my skis tangled or ripped off or crossed, trying not to bash my head on the chair or ground, trying not jump too soon or too late, flailing around with my ski poles and finally zooming down that little off ramp mountain of terror I DO NOT NEED a crowd of targets blocking the way only a few feet away. Coast your happy asses down the trail or at least to the side a little bit! Yes, I am sure some of these organic targets are clueless newbies. But I can also tell many, if not an actual majority of these folks are experienced and should know better. I’ve accumulated about 2 weeks of skiing days and this crap is rampant. Worse still, I have never seen an attendant once suggest that folks move out of the way. Surely, I can’t be the first one to think of this. Surely some people have actually gotten hurt from people NOT getting out of the way at the top of the lift. Come on. On my very first day my mind screamed to me “Get off, don’t fall, and get the fuck outa the way as soon as you can!” Ughh ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/113 "2010-02-14T14:53:02Z")
There’s signs everywhere saying to move, billfish. They won’t move if they’re clueless. Just do what I do, run into em. A few instances of people knocking them over because they’re sitting on the Off Ram Mountain Of Terror will teach them a lesson. And that’s another thing! You\* newbies skiing the runs! I know you want to try something fancy and turn or something, but DO NOT attempt this right over a small rise and fall out of sight. Or worse, decide the middle of the run is a good place to just sit down. Where I can’t see you. Then I scare the crap out of you speeding by because I’m traveling at 100 mph! \*The royal You, not you specifically billfish ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/114 "2010-02-14T17:25:03Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > This is a bit specific, but Public Defenders are lawyers. We went to law school and passed the Bar too. Another PD on the boards! Say it aint so! Hear hear, my PD co-hort. Whenever anyone asks me if it would help their case to “hire a lawyer” I always, without hesitation, answer “why yes, yes it would. Might I give you some names?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/115 "2010-02-14T19:19:00Z")
Be considerate of your roommates. When you spill something, please clean it up immediately. I understand that you do not own the home and did not buy or install the carpet, because I did that before you moved in here. If you don’t clean up your spills, they permanently stain the carpet and I can’t rent out the back bedroom until I replace it. Red kool-aid stains the formica counters. it will eventually fade, after I clean it with bleach several times. If you wipe it up immediately, it will not stain the counters. It is not acceptable to put holes in the sheetrock of the walls, not is it acceptable to tear the paper from the sheetrock and move out when I am not home. A note with an apology will not fix everything. It costs me money to fix the sheetrock and the carpet. Your rent pays for you to occupy the space between the walls, not for me to replace them after you destroy them. The multi-use park trail has a yellow line down the middle of it. Please stay to the right of the yellow line. I see that you have a family of seven, and five of your children are pre-schoolers and I realize that English is not your first language, but in all the countries of North and South America we drive on the right side of the road. Please keep your family on the right side of the yellow line, so that I can use my bicycle on the trail. It is a public multi-use trail, not reserved for your family to take up the whole trail. That is why there are signs with pictures of pedestrians, bicycles and riders on horseback. When I call out to you “I’m passing on the left”, that is your cue to move to the RIGHT, not to go all deer in the headlights, stop in the middle of the trail and shift your weight from one foot to the other. I understand that you are new to this country, but if you are intelligent enough to maneuver the legal qualifications of immigration or wiley enough to cross the desert without alerting the border patrol, you should be able to use the park trail without getting injured. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/116 "2010-02-14T20:02:39Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > The multi-use park trail has a yellow line down the middle of it. Please stay to the right of the yellow line. I see that you have a family of seven, and five of your children are pre-schoolers and I realize that English is not your first language, but in all the countries of North and South America we drive on the right side of the road. Please keep your family on the right side of the yellow line, so that I can use my bicycle on the trail. It is a public multi-use trail, not reserved for your family to take up the whole trail. That is why there are signs with pictures of pedestrians, bicycles and riders on horseback. When I call out to you “I’m passing on the left”, that is your cue to move to the RIGHT, not to go all deer in the headlights, stop in the middle of the trail and shift your weight from one foot to the other. I understand that you are new to this country, but if you are intelligent enough to maneuver the legal qualifications of immigration or wiley enough to cross the desert without alerting the border patrol, you should be able to use the park trail without getting injured. You must have a different breed of immigrant where you live. Here in my town in Central Washington, the Hispanics show much more skill in getting out of the way than the American locals. The majority of the time when I’m approaching a group of Hispanics on my bicycle and I call out a warning (“Compromiso!”) the group smoothly splits down the middle as they all move completely off the path to allow me to pass. By comparison, the local American teenagers/20-somethings are all, “What, _me_ move for _you_?” and the adults scamper back and forth in apparent panic and with absolutely no idea what to do. My addition on the subject of multi-use trails: There may be no cars on these trails, but it’s still a very good idea to look both ways before walking across the trail. I can’t count how many times I’ve had to hit my brakes suddenly because somebody walking on the grass in the park just strolled onto the trail right in front of me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/117 "2010-02-14T22:17:39Z")
Ah, teenagers out walking. If it wasn’t against the law to mow them down, quite a bit fewer of them would make it to adulthood, I’m pretty sure. Things you shouldn’t have to tell teenagers – - Walk across a road _quickly_ - yes, the cars have to wait for you, but it’s a dick move to just saunter slowly in front of them. - Cars can’t stop as quickly on icy roads as they can on bare pavement - just running out in front of a car without looking first might get you dead, even if the driver is on the ball and tries to stop for you. - If you’re going to pull another dick move and ride your bike across a crosswalk, stop and look first - flying down the sidewalk and across the road doesn’t give cars a chance to stop for your ignorant ass. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/118 "2010-02-14T23:06:53Z")
If something seems stupid to you but is important to your SO, and it’s not a huge unreasonable imposition on you, it’s not stupid. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/119 "2010-02-15T00:06:49Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > The majority of the time when I’m approaching a group of Hispanics on my bicycle and I call out a warning (“Compromiso!”) the group smoothly splits down the middle as they all move completely off the path to allow me to pass. I think you want _con permiso_ (“excuse me”), not _compromiso_ (“commitment”) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320/120 "2010-02-15T00:40:11Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > it. > > Laptops say “click” when they close. When I tell you to close your laptop, I’m not getting off your case until it says “click”. Actually my HP dv7 doe not have a case latch, so it does not go click…you would be waiting a long time for that click 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-have-to-tell-people/528320.md?page=7)