The dumbest "Are you guys open yet?" story ever.

[Digitalpotato]

You know how occasionally we pull on a door when it's a push door or get so used to push doors we accidentally push a pull door? Well that happens, it's a perfectly human thing. But a perfectly STUPID human thing to do is to not learn when it doesn't open. I saw a SC (gender won't be revealed) at a strip mall diner come in and literally pull on the push door for at least 5 minutes. It was like that Far Side comic strip, except in reverse.

Finally they realized it was a PUSH door and then pushed. They then cut to the front of the line and ask at the register,

"Are you guys open yet?"


HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU NOT NOTICE 40 PEOPLE EATING AND ANOTHER 10 IN LINE?!?! Do you have Tunnel VIsion or something?

[LillFilly]

Our public bathrooms have fixed handles that LOOK like the type you are supposed to squeeze to open; but all you have to do is push the doors open, don't even need the handle. You don't know HOW many customers we get complaining 'THE BATHROOMS ARE LOCKED!' and we say 'Did you push the door?'

'....'

Somehow it's still our fault. The doors aren't even flush in the frames, they are always cracked-open about 1/4 an inch, so you can see they're not locked.

[JLRodgers]

I worry about that customer.....


The local college has doors that I always try to open the wrong way.... they got new doors, and I still do it. Of course having the doors not be consistant is probably why (i.e. one entrance has "push to exit, pull to enter from outside" -- another set is the opposite -- and yet another is mixed (you pull open the outside doors, but then push the second set to get inside).

[BethB]

I did the push on a pull door Friday when I was going to lunch with a coworker. The shame. THE SHAME!!!

[Kogarashi]

One of the little Asian markets around here has the door handles on the wrong sides (or the door on backwards or something). The pull handle is on the push side, and the push handle is on the pull side. Luckily, I always look for the push/pull sign first before I try to open a door.

[morgana]

In the OP, I think I'd have said no. Just to see what happened.

[One-Fang]

The local college has doors that I always try to open the wrong way.... they got new doors, and I still do it. Of course having the doors not be consistant is probably why (i.e. one entrance has "push to exit, pull to enter from outside" -- another set is the opposite -- and yet another is mixed (you pull open the outside doors, but then push the second set to get inside).

The middle one you mention is off.

External doors should always open outwards. It's a fire evacuation thing. So it's normal for the external doors to open outwards, and the internals just inside them to open inwards.

So, these doors, do they not have a flat panel on the push side and a handle to grab with on the pull side?

[JLRodgers]

So, these doors, do they not have a flat panel on the push side and a handle to grab with on the pull side?

They've got... wait I can't remember the new ones that well, think they've got a bar/handle like thing..... the old ones had a steel frame with a glass window with a rounded bar in the middle that went across the entire door ---- they were bad also because you didn't know which end of the door to push (the hinge side and other side looked the same). New ones are better as far as knowing where to push/pull.

They had so many people using the assisted doors (because they actually are push to exit on all doors), that they had to put signs up saying "if you're not disabled, do not use these doors" - they apparently had to replace motors within a few weeks of them being installed.

[Horsetuna]

The local supermarkets are weird here...

Most automatic doors or where the entry doors are individual from the exits will have the enter door on the RIGHT and the exit on the LEFT (So you always go to the right door to pass through it, entering or exiting)

These supermarkets, Safeway, have it backwards. So I always walk up to the Exit door unless I'm paying attention.

[It's me]

For those who like to read...

"The Pschology of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman. Covers thing likes affordances-- which relates to doors that scream "Push Me!" when in fact you need to pull to get them to open.

[tropicsgoddess]

Wow...talk about a major lack of brain cells....