call fives
to insure that no one sits in your seat for
five minutes if you get up (to throw out trash,
go to the bathroom, grab some chips, etc.)it literally means that you call your seat for five minutes; if you call fives, get up, and come back ten minutes later, your seat is
liable to be takena very good system to avoid fights, bad feelings, and general undesirable situationsthere is no such thing as 'calling tens' or any number other than five; this is because five minutes is a reasonable amount of time to be gone for
I call fives
by Yung Manhattan Project on Jun 08, 2019 03:55:50
Putting a claim on something, like a seat or
TV remote. If you don’t
claim it by five minutes, it can be taken. Basically like
dibs, but it can be used after you’re already in possession of the subject.
Example:
“I’m gonna go
refill my cup. I call fives on this seat by the way. Nobody take it.
“Yo I call fives on a slice of
that cake”