Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Door Holding Etiquette

9 comments:

Grundle said...

If someone is farther than three steps behind me then I won't hold the door. I work in a hospital so I'm obliged to hold the elevator door for old ladies, however most of the time I estimate the amount of time it takes the elevator door to shut and whether they are out of that range because if you try to shut the elevator door on someone and they make it there in time to hit the button and reopen the door then you have to ride on the elevator with them glaring at you for 30 seconds. most of the doors in the hospital are automatic or have a security keypad wired to an automatic door. The only thing I hate worse than that is giving the obligatory hi to someone that you can see coming towards you on a very long hallway and you can see them coming for about a full minute before eye contact is made then you are forced to submit the required "heywhatsup".

Grundle said...

I was leaving work a couple of days ago and one of the janitors was walking towards me. When he got about 10 feet from me he started mumbling something about how he had to go to the maintenance room that was at the end of the hallway. He then walked directly infront of me blocking my path and started pointing at the maintenance room and saying "maintenance room". I made the quick decision to ignore him and did an agile sidestep flanking him to the left and left him behind standing there pointing at the maintenance room while I clocked out and went home.
I don't know if he had a brainfart or what his deal was I just wasn't prepared to care. I wanted to leave.

Grub the Raper said...

eye contact with our current janitor is uncomfortable

Anonymous said...

Ha. Limmy, that's a Scottish show, real popular back home. He,s saying "right, Ta" which means thanks by the way

Stevil Kenevil

seeth said...

I wondered what he was saying. Thanks.

Typical Reddit Asshole said...

Really? You wondered what he was saying? Despite the fact that the title, which is visible at the top of the embedded video, clearly says "Limmy's Show - Right, Ta!"?

You're being intellectually dishonest and pandering to the lowest common denominator, vis a vis your use of cognitive dissonance.

seeth said...

I mean, I wondered what that meant. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Who the fuck was that pretentious cunt?

Stevil Kenevil

Gringo said...

Some dickhead, no doubt!