Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie From: zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Holding doors Message-ID: <207@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 13:04:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.207 Posted: Wed Jul 10 13:04:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:49:28 EDT References: <798@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 > If so, then maybe we've arrived at a recipe for how to hold a door > without getting flak in return. Don't go out of your way. Just hold the > door for the next person since you're going through it anyway and you > might as well not be rude and let it slam on them. But don't bow and > sweep your hat off (:-). And hurry to get there first and perform your > courtesy only when the other person very evidently needs the door held, > say because of an armload of packages. > > discussion, except that the answer is much simpler. Nod and say "Thank > you". That should do, regardless of whether you're male or female, and > regardless of whether the person holding the door is male or female. > -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago Going in and out of stores, fast food places etc I invariably find someone coming in. Depending on if I get to the door first (no rushing etc,) I will either hold the door or wait for it to be opened. If I open the door most people on the other side (men and women) manage at least a thank you as they go through and so do I. Of course it also makes a difference which way the door opens -- Jeanette Zobjeck ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie