A business near downtown Chatham has an insey outsy door. Push or pull, both ways work fine. This is a great advantage for me, as I nearly always pull (or push) the wrong way with conventional doors. Even if there’s a sign saying “Push” or “Pull,” I sometimes pull rather than push (or the other way round). I’m afraid I’ve never been very good at following instructions.
It’s only one door (the one in the near-downtown business), also, which makes things easy. If a building has two side-by-side doors, look out! One of them is almost always locked, to make things difficult. I nearly always push (or pull) the locked one.
Is there a convention here that I’m unaware of? Left door locked if you’re going in, right if out? And then there’s the pull or push bar in the middle of many locked doors. What good are they if the door doesn’t work?
It’s not that I’m incompetent. I’m fine with most other things. I can get from here to there whenever I want to. I know my left and right and back again. I aways try to be honest
Could it be that two doors together seem to say to me, “behind one of us is wisdom, or a tiger, or a grand adventure”? Is there more to doors than ingress and egress?
Of course, even if I see a “Use Other Door” sign, I sometimes go for the wrong one.
No matter how many doors I open and close, I’ve not yet found wisdom.
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