Members Of This Online Group Are Annoyed With People Not Having Common Sense And Ignoring These 40 Unwritten Rules

I feel like if you don't want to talk you should just say so. Taking your headphones off and putting them back on several times just lets the person know you are willing to adjust for them. I have had to tell people before that I have my headphones on because I am busy and need to get stuff done and they always respond with an okay and move on their way. You have to speak up.... lots of people are just oblivious!

Some people just have an intense need to just talk all the time.

Same thing with reading a book! A guy basically chased me out of a cafe because he would not stop talking to me when I was trying to read.

Interesting one this. I got a job based on the fact the previous tech would have his headphones in all day and got the boot for that, it wasn't considered profesional by the management team. That was in 2012. If I have headphones on in the workplace I always have one ear free. Not worth the hassle of a bollocking.

Very common in my office to have certain people walk in, sit down and wait for you to remove your ear buds. Have even had someone push my mostly closed door open to take a seat. One of the biggest reasons I love my WFH option!!!

YOU DON'T SAY THANK YOU?! WHERE ARE YOUR MANNERS?! Cue witty responses:

When i was growing up in our Irish household it was drilled into you to say please, thank you, you're welcome, excuse me etc. One time sticks into my mind where my older sister didn't say thank you to an uncle who gave her sweets and my mother and granny gave her reminders and prompts to thank him, she didn't so it was taken from her and thrown into the range. Might seem harsh but those lessons have stood to us now we are older.

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I’m a waitress and I get so happy when someone says thank you. It honestly makes my day.

Unfortunately, not common enough

I say thank you to the self-service till in the supermarket. To be fair, I am British.

I have never drank in my life and I plan on never doing it because my family has a history of addiction. I plan on breaking it.

What is it with idiots when you say you don’t drink. Period. Stop pushing the issue. Don’t like hooch, can’t stand drunks and can’t stand the stench period. Used to very lightly in my 20s until a switch to a med for chronic pain made even the smell unbearable

I tell ppl I don’t drink you’d think I’m an alien the questions I get lol

I always answer with, are you an alcoholic? Do you ever remember having fun without drinking?... An that usually settles it.

You're not drinking tonight? Cool! Can I get you a soft drink or mocktail?

I started to answer people really bluntly. I say either the truth which is I've lost 10 and i can't or my husband and i enjoy our sexy time too much and don't want to ruin it. Either way they get embarrassed

The correct answer to this question is "As soon as the parents turn their backs at the park"

I had the opposite problem. I'm single and 42. As a woman my family has always expected me to have kids but since i turned 30 they always acted like i never would and say things like 'such a waste'. I actually did want one at one point but I'm not particularly attractive and it was always hard for me with relationships...so it just never happened. And at this point I just like my life as is and i feel like the fantasy of it is better than the reality. A screaming crying poop machine isn't all it's cracked up to be. I don't want to do something like this on my own and I'm just not willing to force a relationship to do it. I think it's a really under-spoken problem that some people just aren't attractive and it's a struggle to develop any relationship. There are people who want marriage and children who just have a hard time so it doesn't happen. But shaming us for not having kids as if it was entirely a choice is kind of shitty.

Same goes for asking when you’re getting married.

I have a multitude of critters that fill my life with bliss thank you! Bye!

Or people blocking the aisle in the supermarket because they ran into someone they know and don't move out of the way.

Trains! Let people off first! FFS it simply works better that way!!

Holler "Look Out" and keep right on going, even better with a cane.

Some people may have been cats in their previous lives.

Rudeness has become the default. Not waiting for people to get off a bus or elevator.

Offer to pay, but also don't be offended if they offer the Mate's Rate of £zero. Sometimes we want to do favours without cash payment because there's such a thing as benefit in kind. I won't charge you for helping my aunt with X because I know she will be able to help me with Y next week.

Why this does not apply for IT people? 😒

Especially if you're friends and family.

Oh, I’ll do it for free with a song in my heart and turn it into such a clusterpuck that I will never be approached again for a freebie. And the beauty is that because it was done “gratis” there can be no actual recompense.

I agree, charge them, you should be making some money if you are doing their work.