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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Automatic Doors–Have You Noticed? 

Watch those automatic doors, they are up to something. There’s a family of them out there.

1) Reach Out And Touch

You know the kind, you notice the sign says “automatic doors” as you smartly approach it. When you are almost nose to door, you quickly reach out to give it a push as obviously nothing is happening. Then swoosh it slams open as you walk through with your arm stuck out in front of you, making you look like some kind of … well you know what I mean.

2) Try Me I Dare You

Not falling for that again you walk up to the next set of automatic doors, smartly strutting right up to them. With a jolt at the last minute you quickly thrust up both hands and arms, shoving the door open just in time to prevent a red nose and other impact  possibilities.

3) I Sense You

Then there’s the doors with the super high sensitivity. You meet a friend and stop for a cheery hello. The dang automatic doors keep opening and closing rapidly, and suddenly you realize you have been detected – ten feet away.

People look at you with that “why don’t you move” attitude, and you wonder if this set of doors will revert to number one once you do decide to approach and exit.

4) Halt Don’t Move

You know these types of automatic doors. Despite what the sign says, you walk up to the door, wait, place your hand on it and it just isn’t opening. Try as you might, you need the local bulldozer dealer to assist pushing that door open.

P.S. I’m not talking about the door with the sign that says, “Use other door.”

5) Revolve With Me

I thought most of these were gone, but airports, hotels and some businesses still have them. The famous revolving door. First you have to synchronize yourself with the revolving mechanism. If you step in the wrong sequence, the door behind you whacks you silly, too fast and you might need that nose job after all.

You better hope your “get off” vision is pretty good. I once seen a person going around in one of these contractions for five minutes.



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