Bus etiquette. This is similar in many ways to gents toilet etiquette:
Given a washroom with three adjacent urinals (call them A, B, and C), every guy knows that if none are occupied, you pick A or C. If someone is at A, you go to C, and visa versa. If A and C are occupied, you either use B if your need is urgent, or you pretend to wash your hands until A or C finishes up.This version stolen from Double Plus Ungood
If there's more than 3 urinals then similar rules apply, try the Urinal Test... I digress. Anyway, this does indeed seem to be a rule that every man seems to know... I'm digressing further and further away from the point...
Bus etiquette (same goes for choo choo trains). Basically, it seems that if there is a double seat free then fill them up one by one. Don't sit next to someone unless you have to. If that someone is Ed don't sit next to him unless the bus is totally full, always a shame that! Nobody ever chooses to sit next to me on the bus unless they have to, especially girls, girls stand rather than sit next to me :-( But then I suppose I don't next to stunningly attractive girls on the bus either and stand instead... maybe that's it... yeah... hmmm...
Today I saw something that I would have found offensive... bus full, people having to site next to people who they don't know... now I thought it was a rule that once you've found a sitting down seat, you don't go and change it mid-journey because a double has freed up. But someone did that today outside the QMC! How rude I thought, especailly as I'd been pretending to be luggage since getting on and I could have happily sat in the double. In retrospect I should have sat next to the guy who moved :-)
The other obeservation was more of a thought. I saw a advert for some product or other that had a 'lifetime guarantee'... right so the product breaks, and thus because dead... so it's dead, end of it's life. So you can only use the guarantee whilst it's living... and not dead, which means it's functioning... everything there for has a lifetime guarantee... maybe. Maybe it's for the person who bought its lifetime1... but how can you prove that, other than not fix something that was bought before the person was born I suppose... hmmm. I'm waffling big time stylee...
1 Cunning linguists... how does one make a phrase the possessor in a possessive statement? I wanted to say the lifetime beloning to the person who bought it, without changing the word order, or is the correct manner purely to change the word order...?