1) I love repeating ppl's names a lot in conversations, b/c a) I enjoy their names, and b) I am usually proud of myself for remembering their names, haha. I never thought of it as an American thing, but who knows. *shrugs* 2) Er, I've witnessed this as a ~joke~, but never seriously. 3) It really depends on what kind of hot water heater you have. I have lived some places where yes, a person would go and take a half-hour shower and all the hot water would be gone for the next chunk of time and then no one else could take a hot shower if they wanted one and it was kind of annoying. Haven't lived anywhere with that problem in a while, tho. This also gets trotted out as a joke, tho. ("Don't use up all the hot water!") 4) No 5) Partially. It depends on the person. I think the one commenter who said it was more prevalent among baby boomers is onto something. 6) Chiming in with others that it depends on the climate AND INSECTS of the place you live. Oh gods the insects.
Um, I'm pretty sure I'VE given the shovel speech to... multiple someones. I don't know what that says about me aside from the fact that I'm an overprotective big sister? :D
Lol, I do wonder about the food in the fridge occasionally. Why would you do that to a perfectly good tomato? D:
Hot water is a precious, precious commodity and using up the last of it is the height of insults.
Oh hell yes, I do remember that from living in an old house. It wasn't a problem in the summer, but in the winter, something about those old pipes meant the tap-water came out near freezing, so you had to use warm water to wash your hands. Which left about enough warm water for two normal-length showers, so if you were freezing and wanted an extra long one, or had already showered in the morning but wanted to again, you had better remember to ask if the other person wanted a shower, too, and hurry the fuck up if yes, because that thing took an hour and a half to make more water even on energy-gobbling emergency mode.
LOL These all sound familiar, but I think you forgot the fact that if you prefer tea to coffee (le gasp!) even if you're a gay female hippy you'll still get called gay, female and/or hippy even by gays, females and/or hippies!
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2) Er, I've witnessed this as a ~joke~, but never seriously.
3) It really depends on what kind of hot water heater you have. I have lived some places where yes, a person would go and take a half-hour shower and all the hot water would be gone for the next chunk of time and then no one else could take a hot shower if they wanted one and it was kind of annoying. Haven't lived anywhere with that problem in a while, tho. This also gets trotted out as a joke, tho. ("Don't use up all the hot water!")
4) No
5) Partially. It depends on the person. I think the one commenter who said it was more prevalent among baby boomers is onto something.
6) Chiming in with others that it depends on the climate AND INSECTS of the place you live. Oh gods the insects.
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Hot water is a precious, precious commodity and using up the last of it is the height of insults.
Oh hell yes, I do remember that from living in an old house. It wasn't a problem in the summer, but in the winter, something about those old pipes meant the tap-water came out near freezing, so you had to use warm water to wash your hands. Which left about enough warm water for two normal-length showers, so if you were freezing and wanted an extra long one, or had already showered in the morning but wanted to again, you had better remember to ask if the other person wanted a shower, too, and hurry the fuck up if yes, because that thing took an hour and a half to make more water even on energy-gobbling emergency mode.
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