Yeah, I was gonna post in the "Grinds my gears" thread about holding doors. It's worse with women. I swear, at least 70 percent of the women (young girls. older women, very old grandma types) for whom I've opened, held a door or let them go first fail to even acknowledge the gesture. It's no big thing to do it, but you could just as easily not do it, as many I see do. So when you're a gentleman it's nice to be thanked. Even a ****ing smile will do, but to be totally blanked, and they walk through as if it's their divine right to go ahead of you, that you should hold the door and they owe you nothing, not even thanks, in response. That pisses me off. I also do the "You're welcome", but as unlike Jack I'm a weedy glasses-wearing nerd, and a coward, I say it quietly through gritted teeth.
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