# Tips for better living...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-better-living/31383
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 30, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-better-living/31383 "2000-08-30T18:39:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-better-living/31383/41 "2000-09-05T01:13:14Z")
1. There is a device near your steering wheel of your motor vehicle that you use to have your left lights flash before making a left turn, and your right lights flash before making a right turn. They are there for safety reasons, for your safety, the other drivers’ safety and the pedestrians’ safety. The next time you drive, unless you plan never to turn at all, **use the damn turn signals!!**
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### Author:  [@BillyBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BillyBoy)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-better-living/31383/42 "2000-09-05T20:04:09Z")
This is probably a moot point, but…
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> \*\*…this has taken a turn I don’t feel good about. \*\*
yeah, I wasn’t trying to get into a feud on this one either. Peace sounds like a better plan. I will now return to Lurk Mode.
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### Author:  [@BillyBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BillyBoy)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-better-living/31383/43 "2000-09-05T20:20:04Z")
Ok, guess I might have been fibbing about going back into lurk mode, but I wanted to respond to this…
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> **If you are just meeting me and trying to ingratiate yourself, don’t touch me beyond a handshake. Unless I can rip off that arm as a backscratcher.**
And if you are just meeting me, I will thank you to give me the common courtesy to alert me to the fact that you do not like to be touched in certain ways (I am assuming you mean hugs, clap on the back, etc etc) before getting violent.
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