But they do something here that I just don't get. You know how many doors have buttons on them to assist handicapped people with opening the door? I am not talking about "magic" doors that automatically open when you get within 3 feet of them. I am talking about the sliver disk buttons that have the universal handicapped picture on them like this:
A person who needs assistance opening the door pushes the button and then the door will open automatically. I have used these buttons before when I am trying to push Abby through a door with her stroller. Most of the time people see me struggling trying to push a stroller through doors that are not automatic and readily assist me but other times it is just too hard for me to handle the door, the stroller and my purchase with finesse. (Minor tangent here, why Carter's clothes store does not have stroller friendly doors is beyond me. I mean, come on people! You have kids clothes! Do you not expect people to have kids and strollers when they shop in your store??? Are you kidding me?)
So you are probably thinking right now, what in the world does this have to do with work. Well, I work in an extremely ADA compliant company. So much so that almost every doorway has a silver button that you can push to automatically open the doors. What irks me is that almost EVERYONE here uses it! They all walk up to the door and push the button, wait for the doors to open and then, walk through it. They will walk down the stairs, open the door that doesn't have the button just to get to the next door that has a button and push it. Are you seriously that lazy that you can't open another door!?!??!?!
At first I thought that maybe people just had their hands full (nope, people do it with empty hands) or people have carpal tunnel that makes it hurt to open doors (nope, they will open other doors!) There is one door system (security locked) that work had to put a sign up on the button that said "For Handicapped Use Only" which means everyone was using it. I guess what was the final straw was when I was exiting the cafeteria the other day. There was an unusual amount of people near the exit. I look to see what the hold up was and people were just standing waiting for the doors to open after they pressed the button.
My faith in humanity starts to dwindle when fairly intelligent people don't even have the capacity or possibly ambition to open their own door. Now, the fact that these people are fairly intelligent is just an assumption. I am assuming they at least have the intelligence to open doors though I know everyone has seen that Far Side cartoon:
I just now walk through the halls at work, see people walk up to the door, push the button as I walk through and shake my head. I just want to scream at them "Are you seriously that lazy that you can't even open a door for yourself???"
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Oh, Becca! Have faith! They will come to their senses someday! And if not, you can always blog about it.
I loved that Gary Larson cartoon. Used to have a mug with it, such a crack up!
That would bother me as well. I think Jen is influencing us where we blog about rants!
People are so lazy these days. No wonder the obesity rate continues to grow.
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We have those doors in our office too, and I'm always amazed at how many people choose to stand there and wait for the doors rather than just open them themselves! And that is my VERY BEST FAVORITE Far Side cartoon! I am constantly trying to open doors in the wrong direction and I say "School for the Gifted!" every time I do. Most people even know what I'm talking about when I say it.
oh yeah, i know those doors and the laziness that comes along with them. I am amazed at times at the lengths that people would go so as not to do something on their own.
Please, Princess tells Little Man to take off her shoes and you know what - the little guy actually does it!
I struggled trying to get those doors open and get through them while I was on crutches from the broken foot. I can't imagine trying to get my way through them every door.
Of course, MOST people are probably much more coordinated than I ... which is possibly why they are not on crutches due to falling out of their own front door backwards ... but I guess that's another story.
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