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Common courtesy

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In dorms
[[Category:Advice]]
Suggestions, accumulated wisdom, and community norms for how to treat strangers with considerately. Please expand.
==At doors==
#*Don't take other people's ingredients. Don't use other people's cookware to store your food in. In fact, try to avoid using other people's cookware altogether, and, if you really must do so, do it so they aren't aware of the fact that you used their cookware (clean it, and don't do a half-assed job, either).
# Don't throw your old sardines, or any other stinky refuse, into the bathroom trash can. There is a trash room.
# Talk to your janitorcustodian.
# Don't destroy or abuse property. Particularly not if it belongs to somebody else.
# If you yak or see someone yak in a place that's a bit out of the way -- a basement, far-off corner, or anywhere that isn't a toilet, really -- make your best effort to tell someone responsible that there's a stinky, biohazardous mess on the floor.
# Make sure the toilet actually flushes when you go. It's gross to have to flush someone else's bodily functions for them.
# Put seats down on toilets after you use them- not everyone can pee standing up.
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=== In laundry rooms ===
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