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city living: chapter 46

I'm sure I've bitched about this before, but it something that gets me slightly riled up every few months or so.

Women need to learn to hold the door for people behind them!!

I'm not asking for anyone to go out of their way to be nice to me. I'm certainly not asking women to be chivalrous. I'm just asking for a little common courtesy. Maybe it's their parents' fault. When I was a child, my parents taught me that it's polite to notice if someone is entering a door behind you and to hold the door for them. This seems to be an accepted practice here in the United States of America. It's really not that hard to be somewhat aware of your surroundings, especially in public places during your commute to work. You just got off a train with about 50 other people. Maybe one of them is walking about 3 feet behind you and would appreciate not having a door slam in their face. And it's even worse when the person in front of YOU holds the door and you just slide through without even holding it for yourself.

Now I know that it's not only women that do this. It's just mostly women. Perhaps it's because men are taught to be gentlemen and ladies sort of expect to have doors held open for them but don't think about holding doors for anyone else. In any case we could all try to be a little more considerate to our neighbors.

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