Is it an autism thing that I kind of get annoyed when people hold doors for me? Like fuck, I was planning to open the door myself, now you just changed my plan.
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Depends on the timing imo. Usually it's just a "ok I wasn't expecting that but sure" situation.
Like every time or if you were like 40 feet away and now you feel like you have to walk faster to stop inconveniencing the person holding the door? Or like you have someone 40 feet behind you and now you worry if you should hold the door for them too, since the door was held for you?
You can do the "push open the door more as you let it go" and let them decide if they would rather hurry to get it or just open it themselves.
Sometimes I pull out a cigarette, stop and pretend to light it, just to let them off the hook / make them stop waiting for me...
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I've disliked it ever since an older man held the door open for me, but stood awkwardly in the doorway. He copped a feel as I tried to get past. Creepy.
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I don't open doors. I learned to phase-shift long ago so now I just go through doors when I need to.
Do you still take 40 shots and only save the best one b4 you post?
Must be ugly men who can’t even get a lady to open the door for them…
But for real, I’m a woman who opens the door for people who are approaching regardless of their gender and I wish for few things more than exclusively women who say things like this to have to deal with the men who get all pissy at a woman holding the door for them
Right? Put the ladies that make dumb demands with the guys who insist on doing that anyway and leave the rest of us alone. Sounds like a win-win for everybody.
Well, until the ladies figure out the guys are dicks, but maybe they should stop being cunts then and rejoin decent society.
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This trick is closing a door silently. I learned to do that when my kids were small.
If men wouldn't open doors a slowly increasing number of them would be stuck in rooms.
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I hold open to the door for everyone when it's convenient!
I do so only when it is inconvenient, while maintaining eye contact and looking like I'm in a hurry, and the approaching person could hurry it up a bit.
Whenever I do this I say out loud, “Don’t you hate it when someone holds the door but you’re a bit further behind than they anticipated and now you feel like you have to hurry?” 😁
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i usually either opt for going through windows, or wait for a woman or an enby to open a door and then run at them aggressively before they close it
No, of course not. We just check for potential witnesses before assuming our natural amorphous form so we can slither under them.
I just BLJ past doors
I use the complex 12-step setup involving a couple of side jumps and rolls before jump-slashing through the gap next to the wall
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Only once. Then I leave them open forevermore. Then I don't have to degrade myself with the process again.
Unless they have a signed JUDICIAL warrant with your name and address on it, that door remains shut.
I don't, I like watching people bumping into them