Wednesday, October 8, 2008

I'm Irritated By...#1

...People who wait outside the elevator right up against the door and people who do the same while waiting for you to come out of a door that locks from the inside. At school today I walked out the back door that leads to the back stairwell that is more convenient since it is closer to the parking lot. There were 3 people waiting outside it to get in and not one moved when I opened it to walk out. I pretty much had to walk through the narrow gap between them because they seemed to expect me to move backwards and let them in first. Which leads me to something even ruder- when you have opened a door towards yourself to walk in and simply because the door opens out from their side, they brush past you out of the door that you just opened. Because you pulled it open, they are now completely entitled to walk through it first.

In case you are confused, here is the difference. People are standing outside a door waiting for someone to open it. Once it is opened by someone walking out, they push in thinking that it is now open and not giving consideration to the person walking through it who opened it. In my second complaint, I explained how you have pulled the door towards youself, and since it opens out to your side, people think "oh how nice, the door opened for me" and would just go ahead and push by you if you didn't jump out of their way.

So that's my "I hate people" post for the day. Another one coming soon! :-D

PS I know I tagged this "Pet Peeve", but that's another irritant of mine- the term "Pet Peeve". Don't ask.

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