Random Things You Should Know
1. Etiquette, and the laws of respecting personal space (not to mention common sense) dictate that in public seating areas such as eateries, movie theaters, open seating on Southwest flights, etc that you use the “skip a seat” method for choosing where to sit. This means, if you are looking for a seat you first choose one that is not directly NEXT to someone else already occupying a seat. You skip at least one seat. Only when there are no other open seats do you start filling the skipped seats.
Apparently it must be pointed out that the same decorum applies to public restroom stalls. Please do not pee directly next to me if there are 5 other open stalls and you could easily skip a stall. I know you have no idea that I get stage fright in that situation and it is only worsened when you are doing your business RIGHT NEXT TO ME. But that is why etiquette dictates such things, so that we can be polite without ever having to mention it. And don’t think that I am not scrutinzing your shoes so that when I see you later I can totally glare at you for pretty much just barging in on me.
2. Pets are NOT people. Despite how much you might love them. I know some people like to refer to them as your furbabies and you are their furmum or furpoppy but honestly, you OWN them. You can’t own people. Pets are not people. They don’t belong in your purse, either. They belong on the ground, and on a leash - one that you can use to keep them from jumping all over me. I don’t care how friendly they are - I am not that friendly anyway, and I don’t want to be rude but I don’t want to be friends WITH YOUR PET.
***OK, I had to throw in an edit here on this. Pets are not people, until they are sick or, *gulp* dying. Losing a pet is entirely different. It’s painful and at that point you go ahead and do whatever it is to get through it, because it can be just as bad as losing an actual person from your family. So, let me amend my rant - pets are not people, but they’re pretty darn close under these circumstances.
Uhm, they still don’t belong in your purse, though. 
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3. Merging. *sigh* This is for those of you who take the College/Cannon road from Oceanside to Carlsbad. Is it really SO hard to understand the “you go then I go” method to merging traffic? Let me explain it slowly in short words so you’ll understand. YOU go, then I go. Or, on a good day, I go, then YOU go. However it works out - one car length doesn’t matter to me. And so it works, everyone gets a turn and we all move on with our drive.
For those of you merging, don’t try to skip ahead, asshole - it only pisses the rest of us off. Besides, that’s just asking for bad karma the next time you have to yeild to someone else now isn’t it? And for those of you in the lane being merged into - well we all agreed we won’t be taking cuts anymore so just let one little car in ahead of you. Can we all play nice together now? If that’s not enough go check out how they do it on the 78 West to 5 South interchange. They really understand the ‘You go I go’ way of merging. Maybe the College/Cannon drivers need a fucking lagoon to steer into as an alternative, as it seems to be effective motivation from what I can tell.
4. This one is for my girl Shawni. More than once this has happened to her, so: Don’t go ripping decals off people’s cars for fuck’s sake. Seriously. You have a hankering to rip shit go get a lip wax. I promise you it will kill that desire full stop. Leave other people’s shit alone. And go fuck yourself.
Oh, hell no. I need a drink.
