Rudeness by Oblivion

I blame my recent annoyance with what I consider unintentional rudeness in combination with excessive patience and politeness around my office on my anticipation of going home. Three examples:

The copy machine / printer is capable of making copies, printing, and receiving faxes at the same time. However if someone is waiting for copies or a scanning job to finish they don’t budge an inch from the machine causing a line of people waiting to retrieve completed print jobs to build up. People waiting to grab a document out of the tray will wait silently rather than fishing their arm past to reach the tray.

The sidewalks are just wide enough for a single lane of pedestrian traffic in each direction but people walk two abreast at any speed they please preventing those is a hurry to get past. If someone approaches from the opposite direction one person will drop back to single file letting them pass, but immediately resume their position blocking anyone behind from passing. The common way to deal with this is to tailgate until an intersection then quickly jet past.

There are signs on the stairwell doors that suggest knocking before opening a door given that they swing into the stairway. I put the percentage of people who actually knock at 50. Doors are never held open and many people open doors just wide enough to barley pass through so any person close behind is forced to open the door from scratch.