…who don’t seem to have been taught this stuff by their parents, teachers, etc. f it’s an all-gender public washroom, a CLOSED DOOR means that someone is on the other side of it. Ipso fatso, you DO NOT rip said door off its hinges, breaking the lock mechanism, trying to get the door to open, nor do you batter the door in with your shoulder, catching that someone with their pants down and scaring the hell out of them. YOU KNOCK and wait long seconds for an answer. Finally, when it’s YOUR turn and you’re finished doin’ your business, DO NOT CLOSE THE DOOR when you exit this public washroom; leave the door ajar so that other patrons know it’s available. —Am I Going Too Fast For You
This article appears in Nov 16-22, 2017.
This isn’t just for coffee shops, or just for millennials either.
I’m 36 and worked at an office with two women and a male, a few years older then me. EVERYBODY left the bathroom door closed when they finished, which baffled me because I do agree with your point, if your done with the bathroom then you leave the door open as to let others know it is not occupied and/or in use anymore. A closed door would imply that it is in use. After many conversations with the other staff I was able to convince them that the proper thing would be to leave the door open when done, and after a while it was a non-issue.
But considering the age of my co-workers and that this problem was about 8-10 years ago, they would have been a little over 30 at the time, we can clearly see it’s not an issue with coffee shop millennials only.
I’ll bet it didn’t happen nearly as described; seems overly exaggerated.
someone busts the door in on me, and I’m chuckin’ knuckles.
He was probably in a rush to get rid of the 8 craft beers he drank last night. Then it’s an $8.00 latte, avec 30% tip, then to social media to blame society because you can’t afford today what your parents worked a liftime to get.