Poll: Do you hold open doors?

[k-ossuburb]

For me it's situation based, there are some occasions when I don't bother holding a door open for someone.

Mens restrooms, because it's just weird.

Automatic doors, because, well, why the hell would you?

Revolving doors, because, well, how the hell would you?

Fire doors, because I don't want my hands burned off on a door made of fire.

Trap doors, because it's not much of a trap if you're standing there holding it open and expecting someone to fall in.

 

[Tonimata]

I hold it open... long enough for the person who's about to cross it to get confident, then hilarity

Naw, just kidding, I do hold open doors for others, it gives me the chance to get behind my victims, and then stabbity.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I tend to hold open doors. Habit I guess. Or I see someone behind me with their hands full and feel like being nice and I'm not in a really big hurry. Though thinking on it, even when in a hurry long as the person I'm holding the door for hasn't been/isn't a douche I tend to hold the door.

 

[SilverUchiha]

I hold doors for people within reasonable distance (maybe about five feet away), if they are carrying stuff, if they are dealing with pets or kids, and I'll add another five feet to the distance one of they are a cute girl (because why not?).

 

[IamQ]

Sure I do. If there is somebody close behind, and I'm in no hurry, I'll hold it open for them.

EDIT: To clarify, as there seems to be more than one way to hold it open, what I do is that I enter the room, then hold the door up behind me so to not close it right in front of one. I don't open the door and stand aside for someone.

 

[Chatato]

I do if there close enough behind me and I know the person, if I don't I don't slam the door behind me, I just let it close slowly, I used to hold it open for everyone but when I held it open for a group of girls in my class one time everybody started joking about it and I felt like an idiot.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Yep. Tends to get a bit awkward when you misjudge somebody's walking speed and you end up standing there until they're gone through, like some kind of..door..man.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Yes; and I follow the cutoff distance where instead of being polite it makes you look like a complete titamaboob.

 

[dvd_72]

Anyway, yes I do, unless I'm feeling physically ill and sprinting to the bathroom, resulting in my math teacher stopping me to give me a lecture and me vomiting on her shoes.

I take it that's from expirience?

And yes, I hold open doors more often than not. If I'm in a rush, I tend to hold it just long enough for the person behind me to get a hold of it.

Also, I allways thank people that hold the door open for me. Just all part of what I was taught as a child I guess.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Usually, if I see someone behind me.

 

[6_Qubed]

I hold myself to the same standards I hold others. Therefore, since I want others to hold doors for me, so too should I hold doors open for them, even with arms full.

It's fair.

 

[BCBUDRULEZ]

For the old and infirm and disabled only. If you have arms an legs get to work.

 

[chronicfc]

It's telling about a society when people consider "Not being a dick" to be "misguided."

I never intentionally let a door close on someone. It's a douchebag thing to do, and if I do so unintentionally, I apologize.

I mean that I get this compulsion, when Im walking and people are around, even if they are in front of me, to open the door for them, I have literally been sat there holding open a door for a good 5 minutes because people have kept on coming

 

[Xeros]

Yes, even if there's no one there. It's just a force of habit at this point.

 

[Fiad]

Ya I do, just always seemed like common courtesy to me. If they are a few feet behind me I will stop and hold it open. But apparently it seems that I am the only one in the area who does though. As I always get really surprised looks when I do, and no one ever does for me.