Conversational Betrayal

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I’m sure everybody has had a similar experience at one point or another: you reveal something marginally embarrassing but common about yourself, and those around you react as if they’ve never encountered such a horrible thing before, and good heavens why are you so strange?

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Don’t Bother Signalling

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Apparently drivers in the Baltimore-Washington area have decided to simply disable their turn signals to prevent accidently activating them when they are doing things on the road, such as, for example, turning. You’d think an action would be completely intuitive, but no – apparently it’s not a requirement, but a courtesy in the same vein [...]