Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Opening doors and holding them



We're all strong and healthy and should all be more careful to open the door and, more importantly, to hold the door open, for people following us.  We should hold the door for older people, women trying to open the door and hold a baby while watching toddlers, the UPS man with lots of boxes, and just to be nice.

When you just open the door and don't intentionally more around to hold it open, you are left in a very awkward situation.  You either need to continue walking, handing the heavy door to the person behind you, or you stand there holding the door, but so "in the way" that the person behind you can't get by.

So I propose that we all be gentleman ninjas, or pirates. 

Of course, we've always known there were gentleman pirates.