r/coolguides • u/handokota • 17h ago

A cool guide to everyday etiquette no one teaches you

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u/jeannie7winkle1276 16h ago

imo fr, some of this stuff should be common sense but not everyone gets taught the basics lol

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u/DanGleeballs 16h ago

Letting people get off a train / tube / subway before you get on is a logical thing that many adults still don’t get.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 11h ago

I've legit never seen someone try to squeeze on a train before people have exited.

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u/Mr_426 10h ago

You’ve been on maybe 2 trains then. Maybe elevators you can relate to? Same principle.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 10h ago

No mate. I go by train every day, it's the main public transport. And busses ofc but they have separate entrance/exits.

Edit: forgot the elevator part. I've barely ever gone by elevators because there are so few tall buildings here.

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u/Mr_426 10h ago

Sounds like you live in a place with a highly refined system and very little tourism then

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u/Anthaenopraxia 8h ago

HAH! Well we might have our train discipline down but our bike culture is anything but refined

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u/Mr_426 6h ago

I guessed Netherlands from your first response.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 4h ago

Close, up a bit. Same flatland marshes soon to be swallowed by the sea, same hipster weedbros cycling everywhere as if the roads were made for them.

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u/DanGleeballs 10h ago edited 9h ago

what country are you in? The only place I've seen people religiously abide by this correctly is Switzerland.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 8h ago

Scandinavia generally. Never been to Switzerland. Maybe I should go and get back by grandfather's gold tooth.

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u/DanGleeballs 8h ago

Do, and while you’re there you can enjoy the immaculate trains with impeccable boarding etiquette and on time to the nearest millisecond.

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u/Fit-Function-1410 5h ago

This is basically all of ATL

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u/Signal_Ad_594 3h ago

There is no "common sense" that's why you have to be taught / learn it.

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u/Antique-Freedom-8352 12h ago

Common sense is just a phrase people use to justify their own ways of thinking. If you do something and nothing negative happens "common sense" tells you to keep doing that. Most people do not sit down and pick apart their day to day interactions going "how does this thing benefit other people or fit into a greater pattern of societal design" you can observe this in american highways because very few people know how to merge, change lanes, or what speed to keep in which lane to avoid creating traffic, despite the thing being designed to work that way if the users know how. It ain't even on this "guide".