Poll: Do you hold open doors?

[cridia]

Of course I do. Too bad my depth perception seems to have a certain lag in these cases, as I normally find out that that moving thing I saw in the corner of my eye is actually not all that close. That, and I sometimes forget, resulting in an awkward lunge to keep the door open

They have trained me well, to the point where my body moves before I even realize it :B

 

[Nouw]

Always. Doesn't matter who it is, I will always open the door if need be.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

If there's someone fairly close behind me, then yes. It's just the polite thing to do.

 

[HyperionToASatyr]

Always. Similarly, my father taught me it was just common etiquette to do so, and it's been drilled into me ever since.

 

[StormShaun]

I tend to always do it, I have been raised with good manners.

 

[Nathan Crumpler]

Yes.

 

[Jeff Loper]

Yes Its a polite thing to do.

& theirs this http://bit.ly/ph2CEI

 

[Low Key]

Usually. I find that most people don't hold open doors for me for whatever reason, so I do what I can for others. Sometimes I just have one of those days though.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

Yeah, of course. Or sometimes I fling it open enough so that it'll still be closing by the time they reach it.

 

[smithy_2045]

Depends how close people are, how much traffic there is going through the door, and how in a rush I am.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Yeah, but I've been getting a lot of instances where it's been the really awkward distance where the person is to close for you not hold it open, yet a little bit to far away to where you end up standing there for a good 5 seconds.

 

[Lizardon]

Yes I'll hold open a door for someone behind me or someone exiting. Why wouldn't I?

 

[mooncalf]

Conservation of energy, if holding a door for a couple of seconds lets another through rather than having them have to push the door open again, then we have together proven the benefit of community.

 

[Andaxay]

i do. not from any sense of moral obligation though. it's more like some autonomic reflex.

That's why I do it, too. Even when I'm leaving a shop I'll hold the door open as I walk out for a couple of seconds in case anyone's directly behind me. I once made the mistake of holding a door at school when a class got out so I was stood like a lemon as 30+ kids rushed through.

 

[BanicRhys]

If someone's behind me I'll slow down and hold the door open for as long as I can reach it but I don't stop or anything.

 

[lokiduck]

I hold it for any one who is coming through the door or behind me.

However some of the assholes at college just hit the handicap button and go in that way. my issue with that is one time I happened to be walking up to said door so it slammed me in my shoulder and boob.

 

[Particulate]

Of course, that's how my momma raised me

 

[christmasbats]

No, they're to heavy for me to pick up