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Door-Holding Etiquette...Why oh why do so few people have manners
I cannot believe how many people do not hold doors. Is it really that time-consuming to be polite?! There will be a time that is sets me off and this is what will happen http://fistfuloffolly.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-work-in-office-park-wh...
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Permalink Reply by Alicia M Conner on -
I do it when they're close enough, or if it looks like they're having a real physical difficulty (i.e., walking with a cane/walker, hands full, etc.), but that's it.
The thing that really pisses me off is I've had quite a few occasions where people will actually push the door closed behind them when exiting a building, one incident of which ended up with a bloody nose for me. WTF? Who does that???
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Permalink Reply by Erin McCarthy on -
Doors have germs.
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Permalink Reply by Ginny on -
I don't expect someone to hold the door open for me but I hold the door open for others. I don't even think about it it's a reflex now.
My beef is with holding the elevator doors open. I'm on the 25th floor and I'll hold the door if someone is close but other people will see someone all the way down the hall and will sit there holding the doors open forever. I'm sorry but I have 25 freaking floors to go to get to work and there are 6 elevators so if you keep holding to doors open for every person that is walking down the hall I'm never getting to work.
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Permalink Reply by Bri Poster on -
I'm shocked whenever someone holds the door for me, I tend to hold it open for others, but it feels awkward to me when others hold the door for me (just how I grew up, I'm not used to it at all).
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Permalink Reply by Gina on -
I honestly feel like there is an appropriate amount of door holding in my life. People will hold doors for me when it makes sense: I'm fairly close behind them, or I'm wrangling kids and bags of stuff and have no free hands. I hold doors for people when it makes sense, but I won't stand there all day long holding the door open waiting for people to wander through.
I see a lot of "steady stream" holding. You know, like when we are getting off a ride at Disney and there's a gate that everybody has to get through, or a big class at school lets out: the first person holds the door for one second longer than necessary, the next person catches it and does the same, and it's repeated hundreds of times all the way back through the crowd.
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Permalink Reply by Emma on -
But then, sometimes, you get those people who don't take the door from you, and you end up being stuck there holding the door for 5, 6, 15 people before someone else takes it. Or just letting the door go in someone's face and then seeming really rude.
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Permalink Reply by Tyla Kells on -
You know what drives me nuts? When you let a person in (car) and they don't even wave to thank you. Sometimes I think if I had the money I'd just ram into the back of their car.
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Permalink Reply by treacleandink on -
This just happened to me.
Not so bothered if it's a normal door (although I do consider it to be the right thing to do) but when it's a door that locks and they let it shut to they can run to the lift and get in it without you.... grrrrr.... that's when it annoys me.
Also there is a woman in my building who will always get in the lift first but never press your floor button. What's with that? So if I ever see her, I run to get in the lift first and press her button without asking. It drives her a bit crazy, and it might be mean but it's so worth it when she's irritated me for so long!
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Permalink Reply by Samantha on -
What I hate the most is when you hold the door open for a man, and they not only respond awkwardly (I realize it catches a lot of them off-guard), but actually REFUSE to go through it.
Seriously? I just attempted to do you a kindness, and you refused it? What kind of asshole are you? Is your conditioning THAT strict, that you can't even come up with the polite thing to do when faced with something socially unusual?
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Permalink Reply by Amy on -
I hate it when I think, "forget the awkward distance, I'm going to stand here and hold it for you 'cause I'm polite etc.", and then when they get to the door they turn and go somewhere else and I look like a twat. Sometimes I just pretend I'm waiting for someone behind them.
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