Just walk through the damn door...

Surprisingly, I'm not dead. Also surprisingly I should be writing a paper and instead I am choosing to update this thing in the first time in literally half a year.

My friend Kelton suggested that I make a whole other blog for the sole purpose of telling stories like the one that I'm going to tell in just a minute, but that is more work than I'm willing to put into it, so I'm just going to tell you all now. It's happened three times now, so maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea. Too bad I'm such an unmotivated fuck. Anyway, onto our story. Not to mention this is more weird shit that just happens to occur in my daily life, so it fits in here pretty well. So, I was walking to the student center on campus today and a man held the first set of doors open for me. Since I tend to like to return the favor when someone holds a door open for me, I held the second door open for him. He entered the small middle ground and made to take the door away from me. This is where past experience kicked in. Oddly enough I've been in this situation more than once, and with completely different people each time. This being the case I knew that he was reaching for the door to take it from me, so naturally I held onto the handle as tight as I possibly could to prevent it being taken from me.

He looked me in the eye and said, "oh no, ladies go first". Thanks to my increasing time spent in situations such as this, I've been getting better at responding to such things, so rather than stand there like an idiot I shook my head and told him that I insisted he go first. Once again, he shook his head and said that he had a rule about this sort of thing, to which I replied that so did I, because after shit like this happens to you for the third time you develop the mindset that you aren't backing down no matter what he says. He just continued to smile at me and told me that he respected that. What happens next, Kelsey? Is probably something close to what you're thinking right now. Well, I'll tell you. Rather than just walking through the door that I've now been holding open for almost a full minute and a half, he completely side steps me and goes through the other door. This left me standing there thinking: "...the fuck just happened?".

In my opinion, not handled in the most chivalrous way possible. Clearly I'm going to hold this door open for you, you could at least throw me a bone for my efforts by taking the two seconds and just walking through this still open door. No, it's better to look like a complete jackass and just ignore me to go through another door. Should I start doing that? Just completely disregard the kindness of strangers? ... Yea, we all know that I'm not going to start doing that. Maybe only in these situations, but I'll be sure to slam the second door behind me so that I run the chance of hitting him with it.

Guys, it's nice to do things like hold a door open for someone, but that's the point. SOMEONE. Not just girls, everybody.

Oh, and just a closing note, when a girl holds the door open for you, just fucking go through it like you have some actual class that wasn't just that archaic shit beaten into your still soft skull as a child. Believe it or not, most people enjoy reciprocating an act of kindness.