How Polite Are You?

>You are entering a store: Do you turn around and see if
>someone is coming and hold the door open ?
Most of the time. If someone is right behind me, yes. If I'd have to wait for a bit, then usually no.

>Do you let someone in your lane if they have their signal on
>or if you are in bumper to bumper traffic and someone needs to
>get out will you let them in or bumper up to the vehicle in
>front?
When I'm driving around a big city, usually yes. But if I'm driving around here, usually no, because it's some stooge trying to cut in when they would just have to wait a car's length before going, or someone coming out of the side parking area and trying to cut in front of those of us in the main exit (and also would just have to wait 1-2 cars lengths).

>If you are in the checkout line in front of you your groceries
>unloaded and a person comes up behind you and you notice they
>only have a couple of items you see the express lines are full
>will you continue with your order or let them ahead of you?
I usually don't notice people behind me because I'm paying attention to my check-out. If I did see that, I'd usually let them go.

>If someone drops something will you bend down to help them or
>keep walking.

Definitely bend to help (unless I'm carrying a 50-pound bag of bird seed or am otherwise encumbered).

>Do you use your signals when changing lanes and turning etc.
ALWAYS! Even in parking lots.

>You approach a 4-way stop no one is there will you roll
>through or come to a complete stop?
Come to a complete stop (may be short, but there is definite stop).
 
Yes to all except for sometimes I don't let people in during traffic. If I'm at a red light and someone is trying to pull out from a side street or store I'll let them out. If the light is green I'm not going to hold up the traffic behind me to let that person out. My biggest pet peeve is people playing traffic director. There are right of ways for a reason...to have the most efficent traffic flow. I've sat behind someone at a green light who let EVERYONE from across the street turn left in front of us and no one on our side got through the light. Yes it was nice for those on the other side but it created a bottleneck on our side.
 

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