a few rules...

There are a few commandments I feel we need to talk about. the 10 commandments, of the elevator to be exact.

1.Thou shalt not fart.

2.Thou shalt not attempt to board elevator before previous passengers have disembarked. The universe does not revolve around you.

3.Thou shalt not press button for wrong floor without acting appropriately ashamed as elevator stops and doors open then shut without anyone leaving.

4.Thou shall take the stairs if traveling between one or two floors, barring personal injury, lest incur the wrath of those traveling to the 32nd floor whose trips are delayed due to your laziness. (Justifying taking the elevator one floor because "they don't know if I'm sick--I could have some horrible disease, for all they know" is a supreme form of laziness, and using this logic risks incurring said horrible disease in the interest of serving you right. Certainly, some otherwise healthy-looking people have problems preventing them from using stairs, but surely not everyone in the building is afflicted with such illnesses.)

5.Thou shall hold the door for others running to catch the carriage. A plague on those who watch idly by as they slide shut in someone’s face.

6.However, thou shalt not hold the door indefinitely and delay travel for other passengers. In a busy building, one could potentially hold the door for several minutes waiting for the carriage to fill. Unless someone is clearly attempting to catch that particular elevator, adopt the adage “thy snoozes, thy loses.”

7.Thou shall wait for empty carriage if thou is sick. If that proves impossible, thou shall refrain from coughing/sneezing/etc. for duration of ride, even if this means thou’s face turns bright red and thou feels like dying.

8.Thou shall give others their personal space in an uncrowded elevator.

9.Thou shalt not call out their floor to the person standing nearest the buttons as if that person is the lift operator. If there is space to do so, thou shalt press button thyself.

10.Thou shalt not carry on personal conversations, be they person-to-person or via cellular phone. Thine elevator is not thine phone booth.

pheew.

now that thats over, lets talk about Wal-Mart etiquette.

PEOPLE.

lets not be stupid here.

If the door is CLEARLY labeled, entrance and exit, WTF? why are you going out the entrance and in the exit? I surely don't see you entering the freeway on the exit ramp, same concepts apply. Its there to create order.

follow it.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, maybe 11 or even 12.

but if you have 35 items, get your butt out of the 10 items or less line. I can not tell you how annoying it is to get the fast lane with my bag of shredded cheese and have to wait for someone to check out who has a cart full of crap.

get out of my way, now.

Side not, I ALWAYS comment to those people telling them to count. always.

now, please treat the isles as though they were roads. Stay to the right. do not block the whole isle by leaving your cart in the middle.

If you are coming out of some random A isle like greeting cards or plumbing, DO NOT just burst out into the main isle like you have right of way. Right turners yield to traffice and left turners wait your dang turn.

DO NOT go to self checkout if you have 50 items and 20 of them are fruit that needs to be weighed. YOU ARE NOT FASTER THEN A CASHIER and you are simply wasting everyones time. go to the regular lanes, pick up an US! magazine and read the latest on Jon and Kate plus 8.