Comments on: More on door etiquette

By: FrenchieFlip

FrenchieFlip — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:34:52 +0000

I, as a person in her 20s with a smartphone, am really starting to hate my age group for this. Shameful that whatever you are doing takes precedence over the basic human interactions. Whatever it is just isn’t that important that you’re ignoring a little girl holding the door open for you (without whom, I might add, you would have to wrench one of your hands away from your phone in order to open the door yourself…).

By: melissa

melissa — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:07:59 +0000

Ugh. How rude! We often insist that nate say thanks before we even move!

By: CM

CM — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:50:31 +0000

I was going to say the same thing as Kate, especially if she is 44 inches tall!

Re: second set of doors, I don’t say thank you again.

By: Kate Sherwood

Kate Sherwood — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:56:31 +0000

*Especially* if someone is 44 inches tall!

I have a question about door etiquette. The larger classrooms on the lowest floor of my law school have a double set of doors (go through one set of doors, take two steps, go through another set of doors). We are always holding doors for each other and everyone says thank you on the first set (hands too full to be looking at phones). Do you say thank you on the second set of doors?

Not that this is a life-altering problem. Just curious what other people do. I would like a fun way of saying thank you the second time that acknowledges that it is sort of awkward to have a quick succession of “thank you, you’re welcome, thank you, you’re welcome.”

By: The Attorney At Large

The Attorney At Large — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:05:53 +0000

It normally isn’t that bad. But most of the people were in their 20s, and, well, I want to say something snarky about people in their 20s, but that’s not fair, either. I think it was the phones. We were almost run down by a half dozen people staring at their phones, too.

By: PTLawMom

PTLawMom — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:53:04 +0000

That is disgusting. She is a little girl. A CUTE little girl! And she’s holding open what is probably a very heavy door for someone her age. Civility shouldn’t be a lost skill, folks. I’m sorry for her.