I’m from Maryland, and people will chase you down to yell at you if you don’t hold the door open for them, or if you let it close in their face. Even if they came around a corner and there was no way you could have seen them to hold the door open for them, they’ll yell about it. Yesterday I went to pick up my dog from the groomer and this woman tried to hold the door for me and my dog. I said, “No, don’t hold the door.” Like five times she gestures for me to just go through the door, so I repeatedly said not to hold the door, and raised my voice and said that my dog would bite her. Which, she would. She’s a sweetheart, but it was a single door and it was just too close proximity. This woman follows me out into the parking lot, drives her car to block my car in, and proceeds to yell at me because I didn’t go through the door.
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I don’t believe any of this happened.
Here the idea of expecting anyone is obligated to be your personal doorman is a sign of mental illness
“Go fuck ya motha.”
Most guys in Eastern MA.
Bro, “no thank you, it’s ok” and just start fidgeting with shit. Phone, watch, dog collar, whatever. You’ll just look busy instead of whatever all that was
Lmao this sounds annoying af. Here in GA you’ll get a nice glare if you close it right in someone’s face. Otherwise people don’t care
No
/r/thatHappened
Wow, that’s rude. No, I’ve never encountered that. People are friendly out west.
Yes.
In Massachusetts, I’ve had women I don’t know call me sexist for both holding the door for them and not holding the door for them.
…Where in Maryland do you live that this happens? I’ve never experienced it in my life.
No lmao
I’m in the deepest of the deep south where “manners” are super important and I’ve never had anything remotely close to this happening.
Can we get anyone else from Maryland to verify that this is in any way, shape, or form a possible thing that happened?
Because this isn’t a thing that happens.
The appropriate response to rudeness is not more rudeness.
Haha hell no
never encountered this in my life
This didn’t happen did it?
Like is it 100% made up or did a lady hold a door for you and you didn’t go through and everything else is made up?
The women didn’t yell at you because you didn’t go through the door she yelled at you because you raised your voice to her saying your dog would bite her.
How tf is that a valid or ok response,
I’m from Maryland too but have never experienced experienced this.
All that driving extremely fast must’ve messed up the Marylanders’ brains
Having lived in Maryland for close to 8 years now, I’ve never experienced any of this, or anywhere else in the country for that matter. You’ve either been meeting the weirdest and against people, or your lying. Not sure which
> I’m from Maryland, and people will chase you down to yell at you if you
don’t hold the door open for them, or if you let it close in their face.
Yikes! No. But I think society has been changing in some strange way lately, either that or there has always been more Karens and Darrens than anyone knew about.
Whenever I go to a big city near where I live I get yelled at if I hold the door open for people. They yell because by holding it open I’m assuming they can’t because their women or because I think they don’t know how or some other dumb shit, I now only hold the door open if I know the person. It got to the point I’m scared to hold the door for strangers
This person is mentally unstable or this story is made up.
No…?
I don’t yell, but I think “my heavens, how rude. I do declare, they must be a Yankee!”
EDIT: Should add that my reaction here is almost as fake as this post.
No but it doesn’t happen often…if someone sees someone not holding the door, they will usually grab the door to hold it for others. Most of the time, if the door isn’t being held open it’s because a kid was the last one to go through. We are pretty much a door-holding society.
>I’m from Maryland, and people will chase you down to yell at you if you don’t hold the door open for them
I’ve been to Maryland many many times, I’ve never seen anything like this
I don’t believe you
This is some European-level story telling right here.
It’s one way we can tell the Californians (and other transplants, TBF) that invaded. They either don’t thank you for holding the door, or slam it in your face.
On that note They don’t pull over to let you on the interstate, don’t ever thank you for anything, and you can no longer leave anything in the back of your truck.
Around here it’s just a common practice to swing the door wide open so the person behind you can just slide in. It’s not expected (although not unheard of) to have the door held for you if you’re more than like 2-3 paces behind the person.
No, it sounds like you met one lunatic.
On a side note this is maybe an unpopular opinion, but I often prefer that people not hold/open doors for me. If you’re coming in while I’m going out, the door is on the wrong side (I usually arrange things so that my right hand is free to open the right door, if you open and hold the left door then its just a little awkward). And if you’re holding it while we’re going out the same door, its also awkward because then you’re slightly in my way. Neither are major inconveniences, but slightly more inconvenient than me just opening my own door lol
Never ever experienced anything like that. If someone closes the door on me when they could held and it closes on me I just think they are rude and go on with my life.
Wow. Sounds like a work of fiction to me.
Nobody in CA will ever insult anyone to their face unless they’re really high
No. We all just do what our parents teach us. Texans are raised with a certain expected politeness that, when not used, is just silently judged.