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Something in a previous post got me thinking...

Do you always hold the door for people? I mean... within reason... if they're like 4m behind you... not a ridiculas distance...

I mean... I found that at college/uni level everyone held the doors, or just pushed it so by the time the next person got to it they didn't have to fully open it...

Have you ever had a negative reaction from doing it... coz its absolute standard practice here...

I think it's required at college to hold open the door for the person behind you.

I usually do that.

Especially for lifts, when I'm going out.. i usually hold the door open a person comes in and puts his finger on the damn 'open' button. Or I put my hand on the pressure sensor... I have a slight phobia for closing doors and it decapitating someone. :p

Always, unless I'm in a particularly pissy mood, which is about 50% of the time, anyways.

Something in a previous post got me thinking...

Do you always hold the door for people? I mean... within reason... if they're like 4m behind you... not a ridiculas distance...

I mean... I found that at college/uni level everyone held the doors, or just pushed it so by the time the next person got to it they didn't have to fully open it...

Have you ever had a negative reaction from doing it... coz its absolute standard practice here...
I've always held the door open for anyone just behind me, regardless of who it was. I will continue to do so because I see it as common courtesy, regardless of who might not like it for whatever obscure reason of their own. :)

Of course. I have to live up to the stereotype of polite Canadian for those Americans at the school. The thing is, I can't tell which ones they are because they look like Canadians, so I have to hold the door open for everyone.... also, there's at least a handful of folks around from Europe and I met one guy from a little Island in the Carribean... poor bastard is going to freeze.
Anyway, I can't let the foreigners see through our charade.

Depends. Dated two extremes: the other would walk into the door head first if i didn't open it, and the other would eye me if i opened it for her,cause independent women can open doors for themselves.

Opening the door (or holding it open) to anybody is common courtesy though.

:) yea, point implicit in my post is that its "people" not "men" or "women" :)

absolutely, i always hold the door open for people

depends on who is walking behind me

I always hold the door open for the next person. One time in the seventies I held the door for some women's lib nut and got cussed out for my trouble. It was a while before I did that again.

I never knowingly don't keep the door open. Sometimes I have no idea whether there's someone behind me, but if I even doubt there is, I always open the door as wide as possible so that it's open or almost open when the next person gets to it. I also have a habit of letting women (at least those I know) and older people through the door first. I don't remember ever getting negative feedback, though I can't really remember any positive feedback either -- except for the occasional "Thank you"-reflex which generally contains about zero emotion.

I always hold the door open for everyone and enjoy when they do so for me. I think of it as sort of a handshake when done for a stranger. A silent hello. It is somewhat bonding to me.

I would even hold the door open for Bush :eek:

I always hold the door open.

Why would I not?

I've always held the door open for anyone just behind me, regardless of who it was. I will continue to do so because I see it as common courtesy, regardless of who might not like it for whatever obscure reason of their own. :)
yes
never got a negative reaction either

i do that (eitehr hold the door and pass it off or hold it open for people)

i thought it was just polite behaviour.

i've gone out of my way a few times to open doors for people who had their hands full too. not far out of my way... but yeah.

I think most people do.

But I still go through first.

I always open doors for others, but in my experience I am part of a minority. Loads of people I know don't open doors for others, they wouldn't give up their seat on a bus/train for others, don't say thankyou or please. At the uni I went to I even got dirty looks from women when I held a door open for them, almost as if they thought I was trying to get in their pants (they obviously have quite a high opinion of themselves).

I always hold the door open, and it's most always a positive reaction. The only time it was a negitive reaction was when I opened the door really wide, and they were right behind, so the door hit them in the face. They didn't say thank-you.

The only time it was a negitive reaction was when I opened the door really wide, and they were right behind, so the door hit them in the face. They didn't say thank-you. :D No, I suppose they wouldn't. :D

I generally open and hold doors for people, regardless of gender. I'll go out of my way for people who can't manage it themselves most of the time, too. :cool:

Guys have to be careful, though. A cousin of mine is also the kind of person who holds doors for pretty much all people but when he did once for this woman in an office block it didn't go too well. As she went through the door, she snapped "You held that because I'm a woman, didn't you?" and spat in his face before continuing "I don't need special treatment. Treat me like a man." So he treated her like he would a man who spat in his face and decked her.

He felt guilty for a while but she did literally ask for it..... :rolleyes:

Bah! Doors!

What's the point in them? Why not just have holes in the wall. Sure, the door industry will suffer, but the hole-in-wall industry will get the rise they've been after for soooo many years..

:D No, I suppose they wouldn't. :D

I generally open and hold doors for people, regardless of gender. I'll go out of my way for people who can't manage it themselves most of the time, too. :cool:

Guys have to be careful, though. A cousin of mine is also the kind of person who holds doors for pretty much all people but when he did once for this woman in an office block it didn't go too well. As she went through the door, she snapped "You held that because I'm a woman, didn't you?" and spat in his face before continuing "I don't need special treatment. Treat me like a man." So he treated her like he would a man who spat in his face and decked her.

He felt guilty for a while but she did literally ask for it..... :rolleyes:

Did the *expletive* press charges against him? Also, I think it's crap that even if a guy opens a door for anyone following him, for a few psychotic women the reason he did just has to be sexism and then chew him out.

Completely off topic...but does anyone know what ZX81 means in leet speak? I just want to know what it says under my name.

No, she didn't. I would say it would have been a stupid thing to try considering she assaulted him first. Apart from that, it was a pretty anonymous situation...

I usually hold doors open for people. About the most negative response I have seen is when I am holding one of a set of double doors open and people will deliberately go around me and open the other door instead of going through the one I am holding open for them.