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If I hold the door open for someone heading into Taco Bell, do I by default go ahead of them in line?
- Thread starter Dr. Feel Good
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Yeah these responses are weird. The purpose of holding the door for someone is not to let them go first. It's to be polite. A common courtesy.
No, you've forfeited the place as a part of the gesture of being polite. If they want to rerun the favor they will.
The gentlemanly thing to do is for that person to let you go ahead, but the gentlemanly thing for you is to decline and say "no no, you please, thank you" esp if it's an attractive person getting their tacos
It's not going to hurt you to be one person back in line. Just be a goddamn gentleman and hold the door open.
Yes. It's mfing Taco Bell. Treat yourself like the king/queen you are. Also you get first dibs to the toilet afterwards
Your life is a lie, OP.
Now tell us how many times you've held doors for others and then argued your way into the front of the line.
Now tell us how many times you've held doors for others and then argued your way into the front of the line.
What a baffling conclusion to reach. Agreeing with a woman is not a sign of patriarchal values. Besides that we don't even know who took which position in the disagreement OP was having.
I answered Yes from the perspective that the other person should let you go in front, but I'd definitely say that you shouldn't expect to be allowed in front, nor should you try to force it. I hold the door frequently for people and never go in front of them, or expect to, unless they specifically gesture for me to do so.
Reading the title, I assumed this is what OP was doing. If not, then yeah - you kinda forfeit your right to be first. I always open the door for myself and then just hold it open behind me for the next person so that I'm still ahead.
I'd only forfeit that position if I was holding it open for someone I have great respect for or was trying to woo.
I think it depends on if you open the door from the outside and hold it for them, thus letting them in first, or if you hold the door open after you've entered, allowing them to hold the door themselves as they enter, allowing you to move on to queue. If it's the former, yeah, it would be weird to run past them after they've already entered. If it's the latter, it would be weird to have them shuffle past you as you're awkwardly holding the door open for them from the inside.
Yup, if you care that much about the 10 seconds it will take for the person you were just kind to, to order, do it this way instead.
I feel like you look more rude holding a door for someone only to try and dart in front of them to save yourself 1 minute ordering your nachos and shitty burrito lol
You extended them a courtesy. It would be good of them to extend you the same courtesy once you were both inside by letting you go first, but all of this is voluntary.
What how is no winning. Of course you should be first.
Unless I misunderstood:
You arrive first at the door
You notice someone is coming in too like 5 feet's behind you.
You keep the door open.
And then you go in line after you
First in first out. You holding the door for someone else doesn't change your were first
I may be a sociopath but it's exactly how I expect everyone to take mental note of the order at which they arrive at the bus stop to board in the rightful order God intended
Unless I misunderstood:
You arrive first at the door
You notice someone is coming in too like 5 feet's behind you.
You keep the door open.
And then you go in line after you
First in first out. You holding the door for someone else doesn't change your were first
I may be a sociopath but it's exactly how I expect everyone to take mental note of the order at which they arrive at the bus stop to board in the rightful order God intended
If someone is behind you it's courteous to hold the door open for them and not slam the door in their face. The purpose of holding the door is to not slam it in their faces, not to let them order first. Most people follow through and let you go ahead after. If they don't I'm not going to demand it, but I'll feel taken advantage of.
The responses in this thread are weird. Are you all taking advantage of polite people like this?
Anyway, to avoid this altogether, just use the self-service kiosk once inside. Nobody uses those.
The responses in this thread are weird. Are you all taking advantage of polite people like this?
Anyway, to avoid this altogether, just use the self-service kiosk once inside. Nobody uses those.
What?? You hold the door as a good person but if you see that a reason to be ahead of the line? I mean really?. You cant wait a minute or two extra for a quesadilla?
Am I crazy for never even thinking about this scenario before? If I hold the door open for someone, 9 times out of 10 I let the person go ahead of me. Same way if the roles were reversed
Why are people reading it like this. You're not using it as a reason to be ahead of the line. You were already ahead of the line. The only reason you're not now is because you weren't an asshole and slammed the door in someone's face.
If someone held the door open for me and I repaid their kindness by ordering ahead of them I'd feel like an asshole.
