People that don't say "thank you" when you hold the door for them

I got stuck behind a girl at my work. Long corridor, many, many doors.

I felt myself saying "thanks" "ta" "cheers" "thanks again"

I couldn't help it!
 
RDM said:
I don't hold doors open for the thanks but because it is the polite thing to do. The failure to say thanks is their problem, not mine.
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This. I probably look down on them like the scum they are though...
 
EVH said:
Don't you hate it when you think about holding the door, check how far the person is behind you, stop to hold the door..

...only to realise they are further away than you thought, so you end up holding it for what seems like an age :p
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This used to happen to me all the time for a few months with a girl that walked behind me on the way to college from the bus station.

It doesn't happen now, though, as we're friends and thus walk together (I still hold the door open for her, though :p).
 
Last time I held a door open for someone, she stopped and asked me "Why did you hold the door open for me, I'm quite capable of opening it myself!"

I was like 0_o
 
I get easily riled up by a lack of manners and I will usually voice my annoyance with the sarcastic "thank you" etc.

However, the other day I was with my gf in London, just got off the tube in St.Pancras, and the place was rammed so everyone was shuffling forwards. Some tit charged to the front, proceeded to whack me with his gym bag, which then get stuck on me so he yanked it as hard as he could, you know, like you would if it was stuck on a door handle, not a person.

Cue me saying "****'s sake, no need to squash me mate". Mistake. Apparently I voiced my anger at the most unhinged man in the train station, who proceeded to turn around and scream "SQUASH YOU?! I'll ****ING KILL YOU". Err...ok...I think the words you were looking for were "sorry mate" but I'll let you on your way. He then proceeded up the escalator (walking away from me, despite his threat) and then continued to shout down at me, in front of hundreds of people "IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? ME TO ****ING KILL YOU?!"

I could only muster a "what are you on about mate?!" before my missus told me to leave it. So yeah, if you're going to voice your discontent, choose your moments, preferably not massive dudes with gym bags suffering from roid rage :p
 
I agree, there is no excuse for not being polite, I always hold the door open for people close behind, I don't need a thank you but at least some form of acknowledgment is nice.

So I would probably mutter thankyou under my breath, it might come out louder depending on my mood but I mainly make a mental note that this person is a douche, I will probably give them a chance to redeem themselves but it is mentally recorded.

As said above it really is their problem. Don' get stressed about it.
 
There is one right battleaxe where I work, trouble is shes literally the top bird in the building. I always end up face to face with her at the door, I always open it for her and she storms through. I'm soo tempted to just turn around and say "No problem!" nice and loud but I don't have the guts. I reckon she'd make a huge fuss if I did.
 
It's worse when you are driving and you wait for like 10 seconds for the car to go past and they don't even acknowledge what you just did...[racism] recently it's been a certain race everytime [/racism]
 
It really hacks me off when people say 'you're welcome' sarcastically when you don't acknowledge them.

I'm sorry, but if you're so self-indulgent that you need praise for doing what is essentially the tiniest of good deeds, then you need to re-evaluate your life. Yes, you should hold the door open for people if you feel it's appropriate, perhaps then they'll return the favour for you, perhaps not. Really, it's such a trivial matter it's barely worth getting annoyed about it.
 
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