I let people merge.
When I see someone doing something selfish, I assume they are having a bad day and give them grace rather than assume they are an asshole and try to teach them a lesson.
Live and let live.
I will make room for someone to merge if the person is using their signal, as long as it’s safe to do so. I’m not going out of my way to help folks who can’t be assed to do the bare minimum.
Why not? So many people put in extra energy specifically to block people who try to merge late, without a blinker, or for any other asinine reason. Just let them in and go on with your day. We all make mistakes when driving or forget to use our blinker occasionally.
Give them the benefit of the doubt and just be kind.
For me it’s usually the one you can see bobbing and weaving in and out of traffic just to get 1 more spot ahead in heavy traffic. That person will cause a wreck at some point driving like that. I’ll actively prevent them from getting ahead of me until there is adequate room for them to gain some separation once they go by. If they’re doing crazy shit right in front of me and wreck, I might not have any way to avoid that. If they’re doing that a mile down the road, it’s on me of I can’t avoid that wreck.
I’m not going to fight them and if they are weaving in and out and could be dangerous I’m just getting out of the way and staying away from them so they don’t hit me.
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Use my blinker.
When I go to the grocery store, I grab my shopping cart from the outside corrals instead of from inside. That way it’s one less the employee has to take back in.
Bonus: I’ll also always put the cart in the stack of the same kind when I put it back - a lot of places have various-sized carts and most people just shove them in there haphazardly.
I’ve found most people who have worked retail tend to do little helpful things like that without even thinking about it.
I do the same thing!!!
It’s also nice when you get inside and people are complaining there are no carts left - I just breeze by with the one I brought in. lol
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I guess I do the opposite, I rarely see cars that are parked badly, So I’m not worried about that, but when I see a spot open next to a driver’s side of a car, I purposely don’t park there because I want to leave that space open for their comfort.
What I mean is this, when I see an available parking spot but it’s right next to a driver’s side door of another car, I leave that spot alone and find another spot.
I already told you I don’t encounter “asshole” parkers very much. And if I do, I park extremely far away from them and don’t let it bother me.
You assume they are an asshole when they could just be having a bad day, a lot on their mind, and were focused on something else more important in their life than parking straight.
And quite frankly, even if they are an asshole who the fuck are you that you have any right to “teach them a lesson.”
An eye for an eye leaves the world blind.
What you’re teaching them is that everyone’s an asshole.
We have a pool of vehicles at work and I always reverse them into a bay when I put them back so the next guy can just drive out forwards.
Take my cart from where people randomly left it or from the return and leave it in the store.
Tidy up my table and stack dishes when I eat out.
Park between the lines.
Put my cart on the side when shopping instead of leaving it in the middle of the aisle.
Pick up the dog poop other people don’t.
Pull forward product if it is shoved into the back of the shelf.
Hold open doors.
Pick up stuff that people accidentally drop, especially if they have kids or are elderly.
Leave intersections clear.
Let people merge.
Not park on the street when it snows.
Be polite to anyone working public facing, no matter how bad my mood is.
Take my meds.
Teach my kids to respect rules, even the ones that seem dumb.
Keep my dog leashed when not in a designated area.
Leave accurate and fair reviews.
Return ebooks early if someone is waiting.
Take my meds- man I never thought I was that different on or off meds until the recent ADHD medication shortage combined with some personal issues last Fall made me fall apart. My poor SO was worried sick because I was losing my damn mind, turns out I do not mask well. I didn’t realize that being properly medicated is as much of a public service as a personal one. May your meds always be available and well balanced.
Yeah …after about day 3 or 4 without meds, my short fuse is back and I’m just a ball of nervous, irritable energy. And can’t focus. Or motivate myself. I’m sure I am a pain in the ass normally let alone when off meds. Definitely a service to others to take it. Then there’s the anti depressants.
I’m the SO of someone with ADD who was similarly affected. It messed her up for months. Things are just getting back to normal now. On the bright side, she has less insomnia on the new meds.
Good on you for sticking by her while she was working it out. Changing medication is so hard and takes a while especially if you’re taking more than one kind. I am really happy you both got through it and that she found something better!
I do most of that except the dog poop.
Brother/sister from another mother! Boo ya!
Love helping people even when they dont know it.
Respect and politeness, preach. You love to see it.
Pick up the dog poop
Would you, by any chance, intend to move in my neighborhood???
Put my cart on the side when shopping instead of leaving it in the middle of the aisle.
I would kill for you.
Pick up litter when I come across small amounts of it.
If I’m going to be hostile and act against them, I do it openly and I make sure I’m unpleasant while I’m doing it so they’re not guessing whether it’s actually happening.
I only oppose people to their faces.
Leave two car lengths in front of me on the highway. But doesn’t that mean people are always merging right in front of you? Yeah, and that makes me about 2 seconds later to my destination every day. I’ll gladly sacrifice that time to reduce the likelihood (and potential severity) of a crash
Mentor children.
It only takes about an hour a week and once you establish a relationship with them you just bring them along when you are doing something fun anyway. You feel a sense of purpose and they fare better in nearly every measurable statistic of emotional well being and academic success. Men in particular are needed to mentor young men and can have the greatest impact. Many organization will match you with a kid who has your same interests too so you’re just doing stuff you both like. I really can’t recommend it enough.
I take out my neighbors’ garbage cans. It’s a collective home with a unique living situation and nobody really seems in charge of the house itself, including taking the trash to the curb. Since I gotta take mine anyway and they’re all in a shared alley, might as well do something nice for people who might need a hand.
That, and I’m trying to keep bugs and rodents at bay. So it’s not entirely selfless…
