Well, yeah, but the polite thing for them to do would have been to stand back while they were trying to decide.
Manners only work if we all use them!
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Apr 12, 2007 7:33:30 am PDT #2165 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Dana - Apr 12, 2007 7:34:43 am PDT #2166 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I went to Subway and am now at work. Oh, World's Slowest Computer, how I have not missed you. It takes about five minutes now to go through the whole boot-up process. One day it will start smoking, and maybe then IT will care.
DavidS - Apr 12, 2007 7:36:11 am PDT #2167 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In San Francisco it's considered a serious breach of etiquette to come to the front of a line at a taqueria and not know what burrito you want to order. You would be expected to step aside.
Or endure the double whammy of a middle aged Mexican lady giving you the stinkeye while the people behind you work their way up from mutter to outright abuse.
shrift - Apr 12, 2007 7:37:04 am PDT #2168 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
One day it will start smoking, and maybe then IT will care.
Computers deserve smoke breaks, too!
Sue - Apr 12, 2007 7:38:10 am PDT #2169 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I think there's a difference in hockey fights between the ones where the blood is up from the heat of the game and the ones that are started by morons trying to prove that they have balls. I don't really mind the first, but I hate the second. I'm not a big hockey fan, but I've seen more than I'd like to admit, and I think the goons ruin the game. Clean hits and occassional fights, but I hate the guys who run around looking for a fight at the ened of a game, or two enforcers who make plans to throw down on ice.
Jesse - Apr 12, 2007 7:42:42 am PDT #2170 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I hate tourists at the deli! And I don't mean tourists to New York, I mean the people who need to browse everything in there before figuring out what the fuck they're doing. Suits are just as bad.
I'm about to get in a 1:15 car for a 2:30 meeting. Granted, the weather is terrible, but I still don't think it's going to take us over an hour to get to midtown. Quality time with the big boss....
Gudanov - Apr 12, 2007 7:45:40 am PDT #2171 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Computers deserve smoke breaks, too!
It's a much worse habit in computers. Once they start smoking they start to smell bad, then they stop listening to you, and eventually they start refusing to do work all together. Some of them may even start committing arson.
shrift - Apr 12, 2007 7:47:09 am PDT #2172 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In San Francisco it's considered a serious breach of etiquette to come to the front of a line at a taqueria and not know what burrito you want to order.
I leave slow pondering for sit-down restaurants with menus and wine lists.
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2007 7:51:14 am PDT #2173 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.
Anyone else seen this billboard? Ask.com ad?
sarameg - Apr 12, 2007 7:54:02 am PDT #2174 of 10001
I always tend to try to stand way the hell back when at a place with menu boards. Because if it is new to me, I'm gonna get overwhelmed and take forever. I'm not sure why this is, but it's consistent.
One of my dad's early macs not only smoked, it shot flames.
Everyone in LA might want to be wary of the convention center for the next week. My brother will be there, getting into trouble.