When someone holds a door open for you do you say thankyou?

Question

Sometimes I hold a door for someone and they walk right past me with their nose in the air and dont even acknowledge my presence.
Effin a you just wanna crack a dome with a bat in those situations!

Answer 1

Yes. Always. Today many men don't do that so if a man or woman opens the door for me I always say "Thank you".

Answer 2

I live in a dorm, so I've held doors for many people. For the most part thankyous abound but sometimes I’m snubbed. I just chalk it up to a bad day. I know that I’ve more than likely done it at some point too! so... forgive and forget. (if they do it constantly then I’d say go ahead, pick up the bat!)

Answer 3

Now days fewer people are nice enough to hold the door for you, matter of fact many people will go as far as to slam the door right in your face even if they know you are right behind them! If someone is nice enough to hold the door for you, the least a person could do is say thank you..I do.

Answer 4

I always say thank you. It's the proper thing to do. I know how ya feel when some people don't acknowledge you for holding the door open for them. I feel like slamming it shut behind them.

There was this one guy who almost knocked me over by slipping through the doorway while I was opening the door for myself! Talk about rude. I said "you're welcome" really loud and he just turned around and smirked. If I weren't wearing a skirt and heels, I would've ran after him and kicked him in the hiney.

Answer 5

I always say "thank you" when someone holds a door open for me. I smile, make eye contact, and say "thank you."

I hold doors open for people and sometimes they say "thank you", sometimes they don't. If they don't, I just figure they have other things on their minds or were poorly trained about courtesy.

You're only responsible for your own actions. We live in a world where there are far too few "please" and "thank you" courtesies. Do what you think is right and let other people find their own levels.

Answer 6

I always say thank you and if it is a double door like many places have now I will hurry to it and hold it open for them. I know how you feel about that. I also hate when you let someone in front of you while driving and they don't give a friendly wave.

Answer 7

I am teaching my two young children to ALWAYS say thank you whenever someone holds a door for us. I may be a Yankee liberal, but common sense and courtesy dictates that if someone extends the effort and kindess to hold open a door for me a polite "thank you" is in order.

Answer 8

I am a thank you kind of girl. They didn't have to hold the door open. They could have ignored me. And I am grateful for these types of 'little happies' that make my day, especially when things are not going well. And when things ARE going well, these kind of things make them better.

I also say thank you to the person who is in the elevator first and asks me, 'What floor?" I thank them. They didn't have to ask. It it is not their job to push buttons. I don't want to reach across them to do it myself (it's rude + I am no space invader). So when I ask the one closest to the elevator panel to hit the button for my floor, and they do, I thank them. Man. Woman. Child.

It's called common courtesy. But these days, sad to say, it should be called UNCOMMON courtesy.

BTW, I am so glad to see that there are other like minded individuals here (for the most part).


Thank you Jesus for telling us about the Golden Rule --- Do unto others ...

Answer 9

I always say thank you. Once, as I was exiting a store, I held the door for the woman behind me. She ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and thanked me for holding the door. She told me that most people don't even bother.

Answer 10

I always say thanks, and am also the type to always hold the door if someone is nearing it when I am passing through. I feel the same way, it pisses me off when good deeds go unrecognized. Stuff like allowing lane changes in traffic and not getting a "Thank you" wave, or even when a ggood morning greeting is not returned, makes me wonder why people's lives are so miserable that they can not say thanks or good morning back. poor miserable people.