Close door people, we see you.
Don’t pretend you don’t know what we’re talking about. We see you duck into the elevator twenty steps before us in the lobby and tap-tap-tap that Close Door button so you can score a slightly faster ride. What, you think we don’t notice your attempts to avoid eye contact? Oh, we do, and we don’t like you for it, either.
No, the people we like are a different sort of people. They’re Open Door people. They’re the ones with the bruises on their forearms, tapping the Open button, and popping their head out to ask innocently “Going up?”
Why yes, we are going up. Why yes, we would love to share the lift with you. Why yes, we’ll smile and thank you for holding it. And why yes, we’ll keep it open when we see you coming the next time, too.
Now let’s all hug and chug-a-lug home.
AWESOME!
I am a door holder-opener. Plate glass, wooden, automatic-type doors where there’s a weight sensor (mostly so the door doesn’t eat my children), elevators, etc. Your welcome.
PS. I’m the first to comment! Woot! Being the first to comment is an awesome thing, too!
2nd to comment wins a prize.
The only problem is when you are in a hurry and they hold everyone up.
I try to be an Open Door person, but I can never get it quite right. At my old job, the “open door” and “close door” buttons were written in some kind of algorithm, so hitting the right button was just beyond me. I tried, though. Doesn’t it give me some credit?
I absolutely love that picture; that guy is awesome!
Hey there! We’ve featured your blog on ours as per Blog Day tradition.
I love leaving elevator doors open for people, even if I have to jam a foot to halt the rapidly-closing doors; it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I think it is also awesome when people let you get off the elevator before they try to shoe horn their fat butt into the elevator full of people trying to get off.
As a college student there are many doors that I like to keep open for students. Mainly the dorm doors, to get into the room wings.
Going in?
you are! well you’re in luck i already unlocked it for you!
The first pic made me jump! I have taken a similar one in an elevator in Pasadena, CA. I wonder where you got it from? I never have seen a “Help is on the way” any other place
I try to hold open elevator and other doors … and also to stifle a sigh if the person is a slow-poke :) .
Love your site!
YES! This happened to me this weekend and it was definitely awesome.
I once got a date out of doing that. An effective method to catching a cutie’s eye, I’d say.
As the quote goes: I do not hold the door for you because you are a lady. I hold the door because I am a gentleman.
I always hold the doors for anyone. Esp. at the VA hospital. Some of those wonderful vets could use the few extra seconds to get through the door.
Even me.
My brother told me about your blog, and I have been enjoying it ever since! LOVE IT!
I’m a “close door” person. A frantic, button-mashing, “close door” person.
*hangs head in shame*
LOL…I’ll confess (even with my previous post) I did it if I saw my cousins coming up behind me.
The picture is too cute; it made me giggle :D
Another awesome things is when you turn the corner and the elevator is already there, waiting for you. No waiting!
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dude what are u doing with ur life o my gosh im so embarressed for yu
I’m probably too nice because I hold the door for everyone…and sometimes they don’t even want to ride the elevator.
Oh but when they do…the looks on their faces….
Sweet, sweet victory.
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I don’t normally see anyone near the elevator.
Open door people, you are awesome!
Too bad there isn’t an opportunity like this for stairs….. Common people! Let’s take stairs! At least sometimes!
This “politeness” shouldn’t really be in question… in my opinion…it should be natural to have an open-door policy.
Going up, or down?
Want some company?
An allie?
Need an alibi? (must depend on reason)
A companion?
To talk?
To share?
Then you can trust that I’ll be there, by your side, for the entire ride…well, or at least until I need to get out and get to where I AM GOING;)
then again in “The Gift of Fear”, Gavin Mc Cleod says, maybe, just maybe not so much if you’re all alone…I’m just saying… :)
I always hold the door for everyone..
and if I hold the elevator door for someone, I even ask them which floor they want to go. *maybe I’m just being too nice?*
But it brings me pure joy when they said thank you or smile at me :)