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Originally Posted by pylon
Sorry, I don't buy that. People aren't that stupid.
Nobody had to tell me not to stare at dongs in locker rooms when I was 8 or not to hop on the neighbours Knight Rider edition Big Wheel and do power slides down his driveway as much I was jealous of it. There are certain things in life you just know aren't right to do.
If you see a shiny brand new car of any make or model parked at the back of a lot surrounded by 30 empty stalls, and your natural instinct is to park in the immediate stall next to it... your the socially inept one, and probably the guy that clips your fingernails at your desk oblivious to everyone around you praying one jumps in your mouth and you choke to death on it.
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...or you're not from North America, where I assume this rule primarily exists albeit in a pretty minor way. Maybe they are from here but done really drive.
Your version of common courtesy is entirely subjective, and unfortunately you have to account for the fact that these things aren't universal, and you are going to run into people that haven't heard of these rules. That's life. It's ridiculous to think that every person of every upbringing and world experience comes equipped with the same version of "common courtesy." Very few are universal, and a few more translate well in similar cultures, but that's it.
Don't travel. Your definition of common courtesy would be terribly violated. If you act like you do here in some places, you'd be relentlessly mocked all the same by people similar to yourself.