Flash Etiquette

If someone flashes their headlights to warn about police radar, you must warn atleast one other person who is approaching from the other side.

I was doing a zillion mph, luckily 2 people flashed me and I slowed down in time. After I passed the cops I warned 2 others to follow flash etiquette and repay the universe for the good deed I recieved.

by LooseGoose1128 June 16, 2010

gas station etiquette

Something we should all practice when filling up, but a lot of us seldom do.

Rules Of Gas Station Etiquette:
(1) If you have just your car, pull forward to da last unoccupied pump (even if you have to slither around others) so dat those behind you can reach da pumps more easily.
(2) If you have a long trailer, use da first pump in line to leave da others clear, unless this would block access to da station. If so, park over in da side-lot and use gas-cans to fill up.
(3) If you need to also shop in da station's store, get da gas **first** and then move your 0%!$@# vehicle outta da pump-island so dat others can fill up in da meantime… don't just leave your rig parked in da island while you leisurely diddle around in da candy-bars aisle!
(4) If you'll need extra time at da pump (like if you hafta tediously "coax in" da last few gallons, or you have gas-cans to also fill) either wait till a "slower" time of day, or else park off to da side and use your gas-cans to finish up.
(5) If you have a check to cash, bagged/rolled coins to spend/exchange, or other "lengthier" business, wait till da other customers are done. Also, walk around da store to ensure you have all your needed items, so dat you don't hafta dash back to da far-corner cooler to grab a second gallon of milk (and thus oblige everyone else behind you to grumblingly wait) and then run all da way back to da counter again! And have your payment-method (cash, debit/Food-Stamps cards, check, etc.) all ready once ya get to da counter, rather than having to frantically fumble for it.

by QuacksO July 24, 2018

Skype Etiquette

The rules one must follow while Skyping, these rules however vary by generation. For instance those from the 80's and early 90's believe that forgetting you had a chat window open and leaving in-promptly to be ok and an honest mistake. Their parents generations IE the 40's and 50's have no grounds in instant messaging or talking via a webcam and believe that leaving while in the midst of a chat to be rude, probably because they are only chatting with one person. There are several other rules that vary by generation.

Mother: Why did you leave our skype chat? That's bad skype etiquette.

Son: Forgot we were chatting. What the hell's skype etiquette?

by JCasch March 10, 2009

toilet etiquette

1- DO NOT start shitting before you are completely sitting on the seat

2- If you shit more than a quart,( large container of Chinese soup) a courtesy flush is mandatory mid shit or the bowel clogs

3- If your shit is stinkier than normal (had Mexican the night before) a courtesy flush is again mandatory

4- If you use the entire roll of toilet paper during your wipe, flush frequently to avoid clogging the toilet for the person behind you

5- If you insist on using brown paper towels as an “ass gasket” on the seat, DO NOT attempt to flush it when your done, it WILL clog the bowel

6- …And for God sake, if you insist on using the TOILET as a urinal, LIFT THE SEAT!

Have a nice day.

"wow, the last guy obviously did NOT use toilet etiquette"

by BigHeadEd March 9, 2008

etiquette freak

Someone so obsessed with the minutiae of lower-middle-class good manners that they utterly miss the point of the exercise. The name of the game for these people is not showing consideration for others at all, but merely showing off their own upward mobility in the most vulgar way possible. There are few people more annoying than etiquette freaks, who themselves typically flout the most elementary standards of civilised behaviour every chance they get. A typical etiquette freak would be the character of Hyacinth Bouquet in "Keeping Up Appearances".

There is of course an entire industry of books and other sources supplying the requirements of etiquette freaks, often including such nuggets of folk wisdom as the following, in a book by Angela Lansbury (presumably not the actress): "A lady only has her name in the paper on three occasions in her life: when she is born, when she marries and when she dies."

An etiquette freak will always endeavour to have as many different varieties of knives, forks and spoons for their guests as possible at a dinner party. Preferably all laid out at the same time.

by Fearman August 7, 2007

Textiquette

The etiquette of sending texts i.e. fairly short and to the point NOT over long or letter like.

(Phone bleeps signalling text)
Bev: oh shit I just got a text from Ruby it's so long I'm gonna need an hour to read it
Mandy: that woman has no idea of textiquette - ain't nobody got time to read that!

by Lazyfatbitch December 29, 2016

Restroom Etiquette

Restroom etiquette is the list of several unwritten rules applied in public toilets, such as "No grunting, even if it is a loch ness monster", and "Stay at least one urinal away from another user". These rules are especially apparent in reserved countries, such as Great Britain.

Andy: "Dude, some old guy was right next to me at the urinals, and there were loads more up the other end!"
Brian: "Yeah, I encountered a violation of the Restroom Etiquette, some guy was curling one out and making the most horrific noises I ever did hear!"

by The Harbinger of Prophecy June 24, 2008