I hate it – hate it hate it hate it… when public places such as stores (usually convenience stores or other strip-mall esque locations) that have double glass entry doors (you know the ones) and only unlock one of them for use. WHY DO YOU HAVE TWO OF THEM, if you only unlock one? Never fails that I try and use the one that is locked and look like a tool when I bang into it, or worse yet, have to wait for people entering in the only unlocked door to clear so I can exit via the only unlocked door there is. This has to be against fire code, and there is simply no excuse. Unlock your frigging door or remove it and put in a window, next time im kicking the frigging thing down. You think you’re saving on heating/cooling? Want to save one door for when the hinges seize up on the other? I don’t understand. Leaving only one open means that it gets used that much more often, meaning it will just wear out quicker. What if there was a fire and your establishment needed to be evacuated? Then what? Exactly, you’d be liable. —Open the Friggin Door
This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2011.
Too true! I frigging do this all the time. What is with that, it drives me crazy!
Good bitch.
I just unlock the door when that happens. There’s a little cache on the top – pull it down. Problem solved.
I know that some establishments with this set-up, (two side by side glass doors), depending on where they are located, will sometimes keep one locked on extremely windy days to prevent it from being blown out of customers’ hands and either being damaged itself, (smashed, bent, broken hydraulics, etc), causing damage to other parts of the store front and/or injury to other customers. (I have seen all such incidents happen before), but as I said, it’s only on extremely windy days and then, only if the wind is blowing in the right direction or the door swings in such a way to catch the wind. On fair-weather days, there is NO excuse to have one opened and one locked. It impedes traffic flow and it is against fire code. Do what toaster does and just unlock it. Chances are it was just an oversight on whoever opened the store that day. If it turns out to be a habit at an establishment you frequent on a regular basis, talk to the manager.
Try the other door before banging.
I hate it much more when doors are a push but they have the handle for you to pull on….
just… why?!?!?
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because one is for normal people, if you are extremely large, then they will open the other one. either that, or it’s none of your fucking business how they operate their store. did you get in and get what you wanted okay? if so, then the rest of your bitch is moot.see ya. thank you, don’t call again please(in abu style language).
We lock our inside when there’s no one at the front desk, but we have a doorbell so it all evens out.
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If I had a kid, I’d call him Thag! Ooo! Good boy cat name! I’m almost at T too!
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we call ours the boy, don’t want to get too attached…j/k, i’m channelling tim nutt
OP, it’s to prevent the fat shoppers from getting in and banging into stuff with their obese belly and asses.
I was in a bit of a hurry one day, and leaned into a door that stopped me dead in my tracks, but not before I busted the bottom pin, and top hinge. Too bad it was a 24 convenience store, I would have loved to imagine the employee explaining to his boss why he wasn’t able to lock up for the night.