Do you always obey the rules or use common sense sometimes?

kircubbin2000

Callistemon21

Why would you book an outing to go on a museum tour then decide not to visit the museum? 🤔

Are you a youngest child?

We hadn't booked to do the tour. We did everything else together.

Ooh, you are a rebel!
Perhaps the others just didn't want to upset Betty.
Or is she Bossy Betty?

Are you the youngest child?
I am 😁

Galaxy

I have German background too Rosie, fight against it

My background is French.

I'd just protest!! 😁

Galaxy

I have German background too Rosie, fight against it

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Callistemon21

Why would you book an outing to go on a museum tour then decide not to visit the museum? 🤔

Are you a youngest child?

We hadn't booked to do the tour. We did everything else together.

Oh yes, JaneJudge, and grandad's dart in his side! Some rules are so stupid they're hilarious.

Joseann

Stupid school rules like no conker playing!

this just reminds me of the Bros documentary

“This is exactly what I did when I worked busy football saturdays in Liverpool when both teams were playing at home.”

Not sure that ever happens BigLouis…

Stupid school rules like no conker playing!

I don’t always stick to the rules…but I am the youngest child!

Love the mugs!

I was allowed to go a drive every day with my dd and felt naughty doing that as the roads were completely empty and I thought I might get a arrested, even though it was allowed because of autism

I have German background too Rosie, fight against it

I’d like to think I use my common sense but my German background has made it impossible for me to cross a road when the red man is flashing (well you know what I mean) even if there isn’t a vehicle for 500 yards .
I tried once in Switzerland when I was a student there and was soundly ticked off by a scary Swiss policeman.
In other areas I suppose I hope the “rules” are for the convenience and safety of all.
The daily one hour in lockdown was a total nonsense (especially as I can walk along country lanes and not see a soul )but I stuck to that , clearly erroneously thinking we were “all in it together”.
Ducking out of the museum tour for a coffee?
Ooh, you rebel ! 🤣🤣🤣

Still chuckling at the OP's opening 'we live in a nanny state' - posted on a forum called gransnet.

Ok. The rule to only do one outdoor exercise per day in the pandemic were wrong, and were actually counterproductive to health. I followed that to the letter. I was foolish to do that.

I can't abide people who think they're too clever to follow rules. In reality they are self-centered and unable to consider how their actions might affect others.

Your examples are a bit ridiculous - perhaps you could provide some more persuasive ones?

There was a thread on mumsnet some time ago while illustrated how to use common sense to game the system.

A mum with a buggy and heavy shopping sees two other mums with buggies already at the bus stop. She knows from experience that there are only 2 buggy spaces on the bus. So if she joins the queue behind the two women she will have to wait for the next bus. Instead she walks the quarter mile to the stop before and gets on the bus. The other buggy mums had seen her exit the shop and called her a queue jumper because there was now no room for both of them.

I think this woman just used her common sense and "street knowledge" to make sure she got onto the bus. There is no rule that says which stop you have to use to access the bus. She had got on in her turn at the stop she selected.

This is exactly what I did when I worked busy football saturdays in Liverpool when both teams were playing at home. The scrum for a bus was horrendous. I travelled a few stops in the opposite direction and then caught an empty one before it reached the football ground.

Rules are made for the guidance of the wise and the obedience of fools' has always been my maxim

Irrelevant in both cases though.

Betty didn't make any rules but, if everyone went off for coffee instead of to the museum as booked, she'd probably think "Why did I bother?".

On another outing we had decided not to go on a museum tour and I suggested we could go for coffee and meet up with the rest of the party after their tour.
The other ladies were reluctant as Betty the leader might not approve!

This is irrelevant and nothing to do with rules
"Betty" gave her time and knowledge to book an outing for a group to a museum, presumably on a coach.
Thers were no rules, but perhaps expectations that, having booked the outing to go to the museum, that is what people wanted to do.
And perhaps someone else might have wanted to go on the trip but there wasn't a place available.

As for Entrance and Exit - as ilovecheese said, that would be for safety reasons.

Petty rules can be questioned, of course.

Rules are made for the guidance of the wise and the obedience of fools' has always been my maxim

Agree 100%

If there is a system then I will try my level best to game it because that has always been my nature. As some other posters have mentioned progress in society is made by innovation and by people who think outside the box.

Rules were made to be manipulated.

Gwyllt

It’s obvious callistermon
She found something better to do

Going for a coffee? 🤔

You can do thst anywhere, any time!

I use common sense if rules are ridiculous or go against my moral code. Otherwise I follow the rules especially those set down by parents regarding their children. And if course rules of the country.

(egress in this context is not the wife of an eagle.)

It’s obvious callistermon
She found something better to do

when an event is over, all the gates/doors should be in a fixed open position, for safety.
the whole venue is trying to get out at the same time, therefore ease of egress is the priority.
no one will now be paying to enter as the show is over, so all gates can be used for exit.

The pandemic taught me how much of a rule follower I am. I hadn't really noticed before that