i always try to hold doors, especially for older folks and ladies. it's polite!
And for the younger generation: It's not as if you have to make a physical effort: It's a door. Try to find a way to keep it open for ten more seconds.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Oh yeah, if there's a bunch of people I'll hold the door for goddamn everyone. Until there are no more people trying to get in wherever I am getting into.
edit: actually now that i think about it i hold the door for everyone. but i make it a point to hold the door for ladies and old people.
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
Oh yeah, if there's a bunch of people I'll hold the door for goddamn everyone. Until there are no more people trying to get in wherever I am getting into.
edit: actually now that i think about it i hold the door for everyone. but i make it a point to hold the door for ladies and old people.
that's sexist, you should make it a point to hold the door open for everybody.
Anybody who holds the notion that people are inherently good or whatever has clearly never worked in customer service. Hate to tell you that some people are just jerks.
I work customer service, and still think people are (for the most part) good! Those types of jobs do get very frustrating, though, even if most customers are very polite. The jerks do tend to stand out. My theory is that people are rude to customer service employees because the "customer/employee" relationship is such a weird one. Both sides aren't acting as they normally would (the employees have rules to follow given by the company and often have little control over what customers might be angry about, and the customers have to request things they would normally never request from a person while still trying to be polite). Seems like some people react to that social confusion by getting angry and self-righteous.
At least, that's what I tell myself after a particularly rude customer comes in!
You do get the worst of both worlds though, Sara. People get kind of nutso about their food, and they get even crazier when they're on a tight schedule.
Story time, though! A month or two back while I was walking through town, a lady's car broke down in the middle of an intersection. It was night, and it was starting to rain, and it was rush hour. There was some construction going on nearby, and one of the workers saw it happen. He got a few of his coworkers together, and they dropped what they were doing and ran to her. One of them stopped traffic while the others helped her put her car in neutral and push it into a nearby gas station. I thought that was very nice of them!
I was at a set of traffic lights when a car pulled up next to my car. The driver was on his phone (illegal here) I wound down my window and told him he shouldn't do that. He told me to fuck off. I thought he was trying to have some friendly banter so I told him to fuck off. As the lights turned green he didn't look happy and he started to follow me really close to my bumper. I didn't want to go home with him following me so I had to drive around until he got bored.
Are you the first in a line of people heading towards a door? Then you open it and keep it open until everyone else is inside/outside.
I've never been in an army.
I've been raised to be a decent human being.
I'm also aware that even though it's dissapointing, that being a decent human being is not the general standard.
it pains me.
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Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
and trundled off to the jungle
off she rode with a trumpety trump
trump trump trump
I was at a set of traffic lights when a car pulled up next to my car. The driver was on his phone (illegal here) I wound down my window and told him he shouldn't do that. He told me to fuck off. I thought he was trying to have some friendly banter so I told him to fuck off. As the lights turned green he didn't look happy and he started to follow me really close to my bumper. I didn't want to go home with him following me so I had to drive around until he got bored.
This lasted for 45 minutes.
I only went out for some milk.
the correct answer was to drive at 10, maybe 20 under.
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A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Are you the first in a line of people heading towards a door? Then you open it and keep it open until everyone else is inside/outside.
I've never been in an army.
I've been raised to be a decent human being.
I'm also aware that even though it's dissapointing, that being a decent human being is not the general standard.
it pains me.
It was a habit for me before my (brief) stay in the army, but still I'm sure it drills it into some people.
when I was working at the bookstore this one little filipino lady made me keep her change (it was $2) because I had a nice conversation with her and let her have some boxes.
also when I was 14 or so I was taking a train somewhere by myself and had never taken one before. I was extremely paranoid I would miss it and have to buy another expensive ticket (and I didn't have enough money for it) so I was wandering around the platforms looking terrified. The conductor of a train saw me and came down to the platform to ask what was wrong/if I was okay, and told me when my train would be coming and what platform I needed to be on. it doesn't sound like much but it was very kind of him!
I was at a set of traffic lights when a car pulled up next to my car. The driver was on his phone (illegal here) I wound down my window and told him he shouldn't do that. He told me to fuck off. I thought he was trying to have some friendly banter so I told him to fuck off. As the lights turned green he didn't look happy and he started to follow me really close to my bumper. I didn't want to go home with him following me so I had to drive around until he got bored.
Oh yeah, if there's a bunch of people I'll hold the door for goddamn everyone. Until there are no more people trying to get in wherever I am getting into.
edit: actually now that i think about it i hold the door for everyone. but i make it a point to hold the door for ladies and old people.
Manipulate social instincts. Hold the door open for one person, go on, and watch from afar as several people do the same thing.
When I was in a hostel in Los Angeles a canadian man thought I was Australian and he was so happy because he'd never met one before. I decided to play along and pretended by telling him the last month's storylines from the Australian soap 'Neighbours'.
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AnosognosWho wants to playvideo games?Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Perhaps drive to a police station. And if you didn't know where one was, you could have got out your phone and-
I had an American think I was Irish when I spoke over ventrillo once, I wish I had played along now and just told them what happens in Father Ted was my life.
I had an American think I was Irish when I spoke over ventrillo once, I wish I had played along now and just told them what happens in Father Ted was my life.
But you're from up north. You practically do the same things anyway. Hard drinking, swearing and tea addiction.
I had an American think I was Irish when I spoke over ventrillo once, I wish I had played along now and just told them what happens in Father Ted was my life.
But you're from up north. You practically do the same things anyway. Hard drinking, swearing and tea addiction.
This is true!
Wiet you accent is very hard to place though, only when you speak quickly does the Dutch appear.
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And for the younger generation: It's not as if you have to make a physical effort: It's a door. Try to find a way to keep it open for ten more seconds.
and trundled off to the jungle
off she rode with a trumpety trump
trump trump trump
edit: actually now that i think about it i hold the door for everyone. but i make it a point to hold the door for ladies and old people.
then i got jobs in customer service
now i hate people
Doors are nasty.
Closing on people all the time.
and trundled off to the jungle
off she rode with a trumpety trump
trump trump trump
that's sexist, you should make it a point to hold the door open for everybody.
Everyone else... forget it!
I work customer service, and still think people are (for the most part) good! Those types of jobs do get very frustrating, though, even if most customers are very polite. The jerks do tend to stand out. My theory is that people are rude to customer service employees because the "customer/employee" relationship is such a weird one. Both sides aren't acting as they normally would (the employees have rules to follow given by the company and often have little control over what customers might be angry about, and the customers have to request things they would normally never request from a person while still trying to be polite). Seems like some people react to that social confusion by getting angry and self-righteous.
At least, that's what I tell myself after a particularly rude customer comes in!
You do get the worst of both worlds though, Sara. People get kind of nutso about their food, and they get even crazier when they're on a tight schedule.
Story time, though! A month or two back while I was walking through town, a lady's car broke down in the middle of an intersection. It was night, and it was starting to rain, and it was rush hour. There was some construction going on nearby, and one of the workers saw it happen. He got a few of his coworkers together, and they dropped what they were doing and ran to her. One of them stopped traffic while the others helped her put her car in neutral and push it into a nearby gas station. I thought that was very nice of them!
Are you the first in a line of people heading towards a door? Then you open it and keep it open until everyone else is inside/outside.
what can I say, I'm a giver
This lasted for 45 minutes.
I only went out for some milk.
I've never been in an army.
I've been raised to be a decent human being.
I'm also aware that even though it's dissapointing, that being a decent human being is not the general standard.
it pains me.
and trundled off to the jungle
off she rode with a trumpety trump
trump trump trump
Bad-Beat you must spend half your life avoiding strangers.
the correct answer was to drive at 10, maybe 20 under.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
It was a habit for me before my (brief) stay in the army, but still I'm sure it drills it into some people.
also when I was 14 or so I was taking a train somewhere by myself and had never taken one before. I was extremely paranoid I would miss it and have to buy another expensive ticket (and I didn't have enough money for it) so I was wandering around the platforms looking terrified. The conductor of a train saw me and came down to the platform to ask what was wrong/if I was okay, and told me when my train would be coming and what platform I needed to be on. it doesn't sound like much but it was very kind of him!
The solution is for us both to get very drunk within moments of meeting.
I'm a recovering alcoholic, you jerk.
Generally what I see here is holding it enough for the guy behind you to get it and hold it a little for the guy behind them etc.
It's teamwork!
The solution is for us both to get very drunk within moments of meeting and I buy your drinks.
I'm not a recovering alcoholic, btw. Just wanted to show how quickly it can get awkward.
i seriously love this story
He probably just changed the topic of his discussion
Manipulate social instincts. Hold the door open for one person, go on, and watch from afar as several people do the same thing.
i get free coffee sometimes
it might be because i'm there all of the time
When I was in a hostel in Los Angeles a canadian man thought I was Australian and he was so happy because he'd never met one before. I decided to play along and pretended by telling him the last month's storylines from the Australian soap 'Neighbours'.
Oh, no.
You've become the thing you hate.
But you're from up north. You practically do the same things anyway. Hard drinking, swearing and tea addiction.
...yes.
This is true!
Wiet you accent is very hard to place though, only when you speak quickly does the Dutch appear.
I mean sounds like an M15 operative. Sounds like.