Todays Pet Peeve 19 Dec 2008

[Northwoods Voyager]

hmmmm, automatic doors!!! Ever try to get a single door open at night to a convenience store only to find out that it is locked? You see all of these people in the store, walk by the 'plate glass' windows to the other door, it's locked also! Walk back by the 'plate glass' window for the 2nd time. Then stand there feeling like the biggest fool in the world as a man comes walking through the 'plate glass' window, which actually was the sliding glass doors being held open. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Dum, dum, dum, dum.

[AliceT]

Originally Posted by Northwoods Voyager

hmmmm, automatic doors!!! Ever try to get a single door open at night to a convenience store only to find out that it is locked? You see all of these people in the store, walk by the 'plate glass' windows to the other door, it's locked also! Walk back by the 'plate glass' window for the 2nd time. Then stand there feeling like the biggest fool in the world as a man comes walking through the 'plate glass' window, which actually was the sliding glass doors being held open. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Dum, dum, dum, dum.

You mean I'm not the only one that has done that!?

[Northwoods Voyager]

I have never lived this one down. My sweet, loving, kind, and considerate family always find a way to enter this into a conversation at least once a year! I did this on a trip home to Missouri from Wisconsin in 1977! Walked right by the open doors. Yep, right by them twice.

Then many years ago, I walked into a sliding glass door at a friends home. They had had it opened when we first arrived. About an hour later as we were leaving and saying good by to everyone, I just walked right into it!! The glass broke. I had splinters of it all over my dress, hair, and even some on my face. Luckily, I survived, only to be teased about this one as well. They installed a new door and then put butterfly stickies on it. Is that similar to closing the barn door after the horse has left?

[AliceT]

I have walked into a great many plate glass windows. Most notably, at the post office in FL. Completely missed the door. I've heard of people not opening a door wide enough to walk through, but I completely missed the door.

[anifani821]

I got caught in one of those roundabout doors - you know - the ones in a circle. Yep. And it was awful. No, it wasn't my SIZE that caused the problem, HEE HEE. I somehow got a piece of luggage caught. And people were pushing on the doors behind me. Oh, it was AWFUL.

This was in DC and I was so so so humiliated - took the doorman and one helpful guy to get people to stop pushing and help me get unwedged.

Of course, I was STUPID and should never have tried to take my luggage into that door to begin with.