Nuzzolese
11-03-2009, 06:22 PM
Sometimes I find myself walking toward a door, and just as I'm about to walk through it from one direction, someone else starts coming through it from the other side, the side where they had to pull it toward themselves. The only way to deal with this is one person is going to have to walk through the door first.
If you have the door coming to you and you have your hands on it already, you've one of two options; you can either hold it open and stand back, allowing the other person to pass, or you can walk through first and let the other person handle the door all by themselves.
But then some people do this awkward, meaningless gesture in which they try in vain to outsmart the laws of doors by attempting to combine the two methods. They walk through the doorway but still try to hold the door open for you by standing IN the actual doorway blocking your path and extending their arm out behind them. This I cannot deal with.
Just get out of the way! Let the door fall, I'll catch it, promise. I won't try to dive through it like Indiana Jones. I don't want to try to squeeze into the doorway with you for the door trade-off. I don't like you, you're a stranger. Some people!
I also hate the pedestrian intersection. Have you ever been walking and you see someone else walking over there, and you start to eye their path and suddenly you realize that their path is going to intersect with yours very, very soon, so you try to slow down or speed up in order to avoid a collision only to notice them compensating in some annoying, unpredictable way, so that finally you have misjudged the timing of it all and you have to pause or dance around each other, thereby acknowledging the other person's existence which was what you were trying to avoid?
If you have the door coming to you and you have your hands on it already, you've one of two options; you can either hold it open and stand back, allowing the other person to pass, or you can walk through first and let the other person handle the door all by themselves.
But then some people do this awkward, meaningless gesture in which they try in vain to outsmart the laws of doors by attempting to combine the two methods. They walk through the doorway but still try to hold the door open for you by standing IN the actual doorway blocking your path and extending their arm out behind them. This I cannot deal with.
Just get out of the way! Let the door fall, I'll catch it, promise. I won't try to dive through it like Indiana Jones. I don't want to try to squeeze into the doorway with you for the door trade-off. I don't like you, you're a stranger. Some people!
I also hate the pedestrian intersection. Have you ever been walking and you see someone else walking over there, and you start to eye their path and suddenly you realize that their path is going to intersect with yours very, very soon, so you try to slow down or speed up in order to avoid a collision only to notice them compensating in some annoying, unpredictable way, so that finally you have misjudged the timing of it all and you have to pause or dance around each other, thereby acknowledging the other person's existence which was what you were trying to avoid?