New etiquette for modern life

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The world has changed so much in recent times that maybe we should come up with new rules for how not to piss off your fellow citizens.

Rule one

If you are in a cinema or a theatre or at a church ceremony switch off your phone. Just - switch - it- off- and-leave-it-off-until-it-is-time-to-go.

Feel free to add rule 2.

oh yes, you must talk at a normal level in the gym changing room to your peers, not bellow at them as if they were ten miles away. Ditto for folks in cafes etc. The nation does not need to hear;

What happened at work today
How you found your spin class
What you ate for breakfast
Where you are going on holiday

Etc.

If you have paid daft amounts of money for a concert ticket, do not spend the entire time looking at your phone while you attempt to record/video the concert. Enjoy the concert that you paid for. Live in the moment.

Please don't walk and text. You might think you are walking normally but, seriously, you are not. You slow down. You amble aimlessly. You annoy the people behind you that were expecting you to continue walking at a normal pace in a straight line. If you want to text, step to the side out of people's way.

If you're in a busy shopping centre/ street, don't decide which shop you're going to go into by suddenly stopping at an entrance and having a discussion with your companion whether you're going to go in or not.
Similarly, when leaving a shop, don't step out in to the stream of foot traffic and then decide to stop to check your receipt or whatever.

Don't hold the door open and look at me expectantly while I'm still halfway up the stairs. I am not going to speed up just so you can feel good mannered!

If someone/ something pisses you off to the point of your blood beginning to twitch, then address the issue to the offender politely but firmly.

Like the bloke sitting next to me on the bus yesterday, watching sport on his phone with the volume on full & no headphones.

Packed bus or I'd have moved. I asked him to turn it down & got a look of utter incomprehension. I asked again and he did it but still looked bewildered as to why I could possibly be objecting to the bloody racket.

Please pick up dog poo.

@Groupie123
Rule 2 -

Calling someone now is considered rude and triggering. Everybody must text or Whatsapp instead.

Supplemental rules:

2a: Except between the hours of about 4pm and 10am, because ANY CONTACT outside these hours is hugely distressing and will cause the recipient to not sleep a single wink the entire night.

2b: Asking them to put their phone on silent if they are that bothered is completely unreasonable because they might get an EMERGENCY CALL.

@thelonelyscriptures
If you're walking down the street and someone pushing a pram or in a wheelchair is walking in the opposite direction, be the one to move over. It's easier to redirect your two feet than a pushchair/wheelchair. Also if said pushchair/wheelchair obviously move to one side of the path, move to the other side of the fucking path!

As and when people stand in the gutter to let you pass on narrow paths every time I walk to the shop at lunchtime, at least have the decency to acknowledge their existence with a look or smile, if you really can't summon up the grace and manners to actually say "thank you".

If you bring your child into an office environment for an appointment don't expect the receptionist (that will be me then) to do the parenting while you wait for your appointment to start. It's not not my job to stop your child from running out of the building and into the traffic.

But why is it considered rude to call?

If someone needs to stop in the street the correct etiquette is to slow down gradually then stop so walkers behind have the chance to go round not into the back of you. So if someone does this, do NOT keep walking directly behind them then wait ages to pass them even when they're stopped and huff at the inconvenience - what more can they do, wear brake lights???

Please do not allow your children to ride their scooters in the supermarket or on busy city streets. Time and place, people.

Its not ok to do that just because its you doing it.

But why is it considered rude to call?

Quite, its a telephone.

It's MN. Everything is RUDE.

Stop posting every second of your life online and expect me to like it. DC I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANOTHER CUTE BABY OR ANIMAL CLIP (I never say it to them though)

@DotForShort
"Please do not allow your children to ride their scooters in the supermarket or on busy city streets. "

Yes, why on earth do people think this is OK? My local Waitrose is a hot spot for spotting toddlers. It's quite easy to hang the scooter on the trolley when you are in the shop.

If you don't want to see it, don't look at it. You CHOOSE to engage with them on social media, its not for you to say what they should post.

Honestly, do people not understand they aren't shouting into a void, this is people you have chosen to interact with, and then you whine about having the interaction.

Thanks for clarifying.
I think I will ignore that rule ( and carry on being oblivious to my rudeness).