Do you know how to use a door?

[jane_pippin]

Every single day I get people who knock on my office door.
Naturally, I say in a welcoming voice, "Come in!"

Most of these people are pros when it comes to the highly complicated skill of using a doorknob to open a door so the whole process goes quickly and smoothly.

A surprising number of them--many college educated--just stand there even after I have said "come in" more than once and continue to stand there until I come open the door for them.

So what gives? How difficult is it to open an unlocked, regular old door? What am I missing?

Which brings me to the poll question:
Do you know how to use a door?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. They have seen you leave the restroom

and are afraid to touch your door handle!

:o

[jane_pippin]

2. If that's all it takes to keep morans out of my office then

I'm going to have to eat way more bran and get a lot less squeamish.

[SOteric]

3. Install a remote-activated message screen

that pops up instructions for turning a door knob and entering a room.

[DS1]

14. Or just an LED sign that starts flashing DO NOT ENTER

They'll be in a moments

[MissMillie]

4. I'm door challenged

:shrug:

[LSK]

5. other - why do you have the door closed so much??

What you doing back there anyways? ;)

[JVS]

6. Maybe they can't hear you

[jane_pippin]

7. Good point. I should put the old "Please come in" sign up again.

That way when they look through the glass and see me waving them in they can cross-check it with the sign on the door.

[fiveleafclover]

18. Maybe you need a butler

Ooh, or one of those moving sidewalk things! That would be cool.

[imperialismispasse]

12. That was my thought too

[underpants]

8. "How do you think I rang the doorbell?"

:bounce:

[jane_pippin]

9. Oh my!

:D

[LaraMN]

10. Sometimes I push on "pull" doors or pull on "push" doors.

I also walked into the door at the gas station and smacked my face on it, last month.

[jane_pippin]

13. That's the cartoon that flashes before my eyes each time it happens.

:rofl:

(I know, we've all done it. But it happens all the time and they can see me waving at them and saying "come in." I just needed to vent.)

[ghostsofgiants]

11. What the hell is a door?

[rug]

15. You need a Les Nessman office.

[TrogL]

16. Other options

1. Kicking it in. Make sure to wear steeltoe boots.
   
2. Chainsaw - yum
   
3. Fire axe
   
4. Blow torch
   
5. explosives
   
6. have a cat scratch at it and meow and howl
   
7. doors are for wimps - use the window
   

[Neshanic]

17. According to my father, no. Especially a screen door.

[Fox Mulder]

19. You'd be amazed at how many college students...

are stupid. I know quite a few. Most of them are the jocks, but it's not just limited to them.

[hippywife]

20. I have just the opposite problem.

My door isn't closed often but when it is there is good reason. I constantly have people just come by, open it up and stick their head in.
Or I'll catch them going in as I am coming down the hall. If I'm not there the door has to be shut for privacy policy reasons which means they are not supposed to just go in.

:mad: