Signal? You know, when you're driving and you're about to turn left or right, or even just changing lanes? This is not just an optional courtesy, it's actually LAW! Look it up in your state laws or codes (or whatever in your civilized country). Well, that's not really enough, though. Alright. Let's say you change lanes on the highway. Some other fool is speeding along, talking on his cell phone or tuning the radio and not watching just as you come over. After the accident, if you live, you realize you've caused a traffic jam, making yourself and lots of others late.
Maybe he hit you, but you did not signal. In some states if you are breaking the law you automatically lose right of way, which means you lose any argument automatically. Had you signaled, the fellow on the cell phone might catch the flash of your signal and take note in time to slow down. If he doesn't, it's all his fault. If you don't signal, however, it's really your fault.
This is really about courtesy. Courtesy on the road works beyond the "nice factor"; it saves you and others all the trouble and distraction of an accident. It may even save lives. When you signal, look, and change lanes or turn, you're covering your own behind. Call it enlightened self-interest.
Could you PLEASE pick up your feet?
This is really for the people who walk around in whatever kind of loose shoes and allow their heels to drag across the ground as they walk. When you let that happen it's just a way of saying you're too lazy to even pick up your feet. It has always bugged me, almost more than fingernails across a blackboard. What bugs me is the way it says to me "I don't take enough pride in myself to stand up, pick up my feet, and walk." Have some pride; have some style. Pick up your feet.It's a question of style.
Gallagher really puts the matter in perspective. "Have some style." It's a way of having pride and confidence, and doing things with, well, style. Oh, and this is not about "style" from the clothing design houses. This is about personal style. They way you carry yourself, the way you act. Maybe style like a cat (well, some cats).26 June, 2001