Once Shotgun is available, you must call Shotgun before the other occupants. Often times there is discrepancy regarding when Shotgun actually becomes available. Several attempts have been made to clearly define this point, yet no truly fair rule can be applied here.
For this reason, the driver should resolve this problem. Exception: If the Shotgun rider abandoned the seat to do a deed for the driver, i. Other Seats Once the Shotgun seat has been called by someone, the other less prestigious seats in the car may be claimed using the same rules as calling Shotgun. For example: you can say "back-right" or "back-center". In addition, you may also negate calls such as "not back-center" which would put you in any seat except for the back-center.
Remain Seated If you choose to remain in the car while the other passengers accomplish their deed, you may retain full rights to Shotgun. Often times not everyone needs to go inside when completing menial deeds.
It can be abused however when a certain person is willing to wait in the car for extensive periods of time in order to retain the rights to Shotgun.
This type of person is considered to be a "Shotgun Gaper". The Shotgun Gaper Gapers gay-pers are people who prioritize Shotgun much more than a normal human being. These people will alter their usual behavior and even undermine their own ethics in order to gain the rights to Shotgun. They do this through legal means such as sprinting for an exit, and therefore they cannot be voided. The advantage to being a Shotgun Gaper, of course, is you always get Shotgun. Being a Shotgun Gaper, however, is frowned upon.
Voiding Whenever you break a Shotgun rule as stated in this guide, you may be voided from receiving Shotgun privileges for that ride. Although somewhat discretionary, voiding automatically applies if you call Shotgun while indoors, or if you do not have your shoes on and call Shotgun, or if you display any other blatant disregard for Shotgun protocol.
In circumstances of minor Shotgun rules infractions, voiding may not need to be exercised. Being void only applies for the ride directly after the voiding has occurred and after that ride you may regain full Shotgun privileges. Once someone has been voided, then all of the other passengers are free to once again call Shotgun in the correct manner.
After the destination is reached, the front seat is then open to anyone again. These special exceptions to the rules above should be considered in the order presented; the case listed first will take precedence over any of the cases beneath it, when applicable. E In the instance that only one person knows how to get to a given location and this person is not the driver, then as the designated navigator for the group, they automatically get shotgun, unless they decline.
F In the instance that one of the occupants is too tall or wide to fit comfortably in the back seat, then the driver may show mercy and award shotgun to them. Alternatively, the driver and other passengers may continually taunt the poor fellow. These are optional regulations, some of which are regional. A minute rule: Once you call shotgun you have three minutes to depart or at least be sitting in the car. The ritual of calling Shotgun is designed with the ideals of fairness in mind, allowing all potential occupants of a vehicle to call dibs on the front seat, fairly.
Sitting Shotgun does come with responsibilities and should not be taken lightly. Most rules and responsibilities have intricate details that will help you better serve in your role as shotgunner. Maybe it is Utterly BS and your friends are liars. Maybe you need one of our shotgun sheriffs to help moderate your call. We are here to help! Enjoy your ride in the front seat and never get stuck riding bitch again. This must be done clearly and loud enough so that at least one other to-be occupant of the vehicle can hear you.
If the Deed takes place indoors, the Deed is considered done after you have left the building in which the Deed took place. Gapers gey-pers are people who prioritize Shotgun much more than a normal human being. These people will alter their usual behavior and even undermine their own ethics in order to gain the rights to Shotgun.
They do this through legal means, however — such as sprinting for an exit — and therefore they cannot be Voided. Although somewhat discretionary, voiding automatically applies if you call Shotgun while indoors, if you do not have your shoes on, or if you display any other blatant disregard for Shotgun protocol. Shotgun may be called for one ride, one final destination where a deed is to be done. When your final destination is reached, Shotgun no longer belongs to the original caller and may be claimed again.
Your footwear for the ride in Shotgun must be on your feet, before you can call Shotgun. The first usage in print relating to automobiles, is - ready? Dropping "riding" and using the simple "shotgun" as in "I call shotgun" to mean the passenger seat comes in the early 60s. Thus, the sequence seems to be that the usage "shotgun guard" on a stagecoach in the Old West say, the s evolved to "riding shotgun" in popular fiction about the Old West in the s and s, from there made its way into movies and television, was applied to automobiles in the s, and finally was shortened to "shotgun" in the s.
The term "shotgun" is also used colloquially to indicate an act performed under duress, as though at gunpoint. In the s we read of "elections held under the shotgun system" and in we find the first reference to " shotgun wedding ," which suggests a pregnant bride and a nervous groom getting hitched at the insistence of a shotgun-wielding father.
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