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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2120 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is LOL funny, by an Irish Times colleague. http://www.ireland.com/theticket/article s/2008/0425/1208987682209.html?via=mr | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 128 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's good. A friend of mine claims he once cuffed an elderly lady over the head for continual chattering in the cinema. He's not a violent type, but it does infuriate. I posted something on the intranet at work a couple of months ago about people persistently failing to obey the holding the door open rules - ie not saying thank you and, even worse, just waltzing through without grabbing the door. It was looked at more than 10,000 times and got about 150 replies. Most entries, about promotions and such like, don't get out of the single figures for either thing. I felt quite proud. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1647 Registered: 03-2005 |
"holding the door open rules." Hmmm. Consider me a dense vulgar American, Peter, but tip me off on what they are just in case I find myself in Eire. I hold the door open for people quite a lot but I hate it if somebody holds the door open for me. I think it's a control thing. And I hate feeling indebted. At work there's a particular quandary that has had me stumped forever. To leave the building via the garage you must pass out of an elevator into a small vestibule and then out of the vestibule through a regular door with a pressurized gas damper. If I am riding on the elevator with a female (Catherine will go ack! at this) I will always let her alight from the elevator first. BUT this then means that the woman--if she has any courtesy--will have to hold the regular door open for me and holding the regular door open is a lot more onerous than merely waiting to go second out of an elevator with automatic doors. I've always felt guilty, like I was setting up the woman for the bum job but if I rushed out of the elevator first to reach the door first I'd come out looking like an oaf. Ok, I admit that's pretty ridiculous. But I've never come up with a resolution. And you DID compile a list of door open rules. | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 136 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have no idea of the rules in Eire because I'm from England. But if I ever find out, I'll let you know. |