Perhaps you should wait for me to exit before you enter… there is only so much space in a door frame with me halfway through. —Ugh
This article appears in Feb 16-22, 2012.
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It’s only fair. People are so into themselves these days, that they forget to mind their manners.
I did that once when I was a kid and got my ears boxed by my uncle. I haven’t done it since. Lesson learned and a better man for it.
Did a short ginger try to grind you between the door frame?
Fatty McGee, you’re the fattest!
You got elbows, right? USE ‘EM!
I second Captain’s plan. Nothing like a couple of well place ‘Gordie Howes’ to really make someone reconsider their initial actions.
unless you weigh in at about 400 pounds, most doors will let 2 pass, side by side. if not, then you should make owner aware of this. there, i believe, is a building code for that sort of thing. if i find it, i wil post it here.
Check section 9, I believe, of NBC 2004. Regarding openings. Minimum door width along a path of egress is 3’0″. Fire codes and all that mumbo-jumbo…
I’d like to point out that I’m a little wider than 1’6″, accounting for shoulders. How wide is the average person? How wide are a ladies hips?
shoulder width is directly proportional to one’s height…
at about the 3:1 ratio
average 5’10” man would expect to have nearly 2 foot breadth with shoulders at their side….
not exactly looking good for those 3″ wide doors.
this happens all the time i take someones clothes to put in a fitting room for them and as i am getting out they squeeze in. just let me out first not only is the door small but so is the room and than i’m basically dancing with you to get out they get offended or upset if i touch them let me the fuck out before you go in it’s so simple
..is this like symbolic?..and if not ,is this an on-going problem?
i enjoy the sideways dance, on the sidewalk or wherever. back and forth, both going to the same side, until both people are laughing. then i grab them, pick their side, and we carry one
I hate the texters that are using me in their peripheral vision as the target of where the sidewalk is going… so I move left, they start to veer left while typing away… so I move right, they start to veer right… back at me again…
LOOK UP FOR 2 GOD DAMN SECONDS!
this is why i eat garlic.
Classic KODA, well played
I re-read this bitch and now this is the only thing I can think of:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oaNql-vuqCo/TlPW…
FML
Sucks – Hey buds, I’m just a little over 200lbs, and I friggin well fill a doorway, hit my head on more than one occasion too.
My approach is rather passive agressive, “Oh, excuse me, was I in your way?”
I have the same problem getting on the escalator.