ThePhanastasio

At work, we have to scan our key cards to get into three doors before we are on the floor. Courtesy dictates, if in the hallway and you turn around to make eye contact with a person behind you, you must stop and hold the door, lest you be seen as a total dick.

Also, if someone doesn't have their key card, you have to grill them about which campaign/team they are on to ascertain they are not a disgruntled mass shooter.

I do figure, though, if that situation ever arises, they'd probably shoot me, then swipe my key card

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The Batlord

By that logic you should immediately shut the door after you, and put as much distance between you and the guy (disgruntled maniac) behind you as possible.

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Lisnaholic

I like your example of etiquette for modern times !

Here it´s normal practise to shake hands almost every time you see or leave a colleague, but when there was that big scare about swine flu a few years back, people started to become very aware of who they were touching and how often they were washing their hands.
I was working at a hospital at the time and one morning, I reached out as usual to shake a doctor´s hand when she grabbed me by the middle of the forearm. I soon worked out that this was the new etiquette within the hospital; a kind of Roman-Centurian mutual forearm clasp.

Since then I´ve never been sure with doctors. If I don´t shake their hand am I being unfriendly - or considerate ?

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Zer0

One of my friends likes to check his Facebook on his phone while driving at 140 kph on the motorway. To say I'm nervous being a passenger in his car would be an understatement

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Paul Smeenus

I would not be a passenger in that person't car. He is a nasty accident waiting to happen, and it doesn't matter a hoot how good a driver he is otherwise, things happen too fast in traffic (even very light traffic) to possibly react when you're checking your fecking phone. Especially when it can totally fecking wait until he's not driving.

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Zer0

I'd like to have full confidence in him while he's driving, but yes all it takes is a simple lapse in concentration to be involved in a potentially fatal accident. I have every right to feel nervous in a car with him. I've never answered my phone or texted anybody while driving and it pisses me off when I see others on their phones while waiting a junctions or driving along a busy road. There's constant warnings about it here but people just seem to do it anyway.

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Paul Smeenus

I have a high quality Bluetooth device and I use that if I have to take a call while driving. Otherwise, you're right

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Zer0

I've never bothered with a Bluetooth device for some reason, I probably wouldn't use it much either. But I often have to let phone calls slip until I either get home or find somewhere safe to pull in so I can call back.

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Burning Down

Pahhh the things they put in cars these days. My car is old and getting a CD player along with the cassette deck was still an option.

Stephen

140 kph = 38.89 m/s

5 seconds looking at Facebook = travelling 194m blind.