QuikTrip Door Etiquette
For those unsure, in this country we drive on the right side of the road.
That habit is transferable to doors.
When I enter through the right side of the double doors at QuikTrip, it is not an invitation for you to exit. I am not opening the door inward for you to leave.
This also applies when I’m on my way out. A door opening outward is not due to my will for you to enter.
It shouldn’t be a hard concept: I enter on the right, I exit on the right. This allows for smooth pedestrian traffic, and fewer chances that I’ll throw my coffee in your face.
It’s QuikTrip, not PanicTrip. You will not fall to the ground, convulse and soil yourself if you take two extra seconds to step to the right.
There are five simple points to this concept:
- Choose the door closest to your cookie hand.
- If you’re left handed, use the door closest to your milk hand.
- Enter or exit.
- Allow smooth flow of traffic.
- Stay the hell out of my way.
Can you not respect my overwhelming sense of impatience?
The next time you believe my forced smiled and polite “oh, excuse me,” is forgiveness for our near genital-to-coffee collision, remember this … I don’t like you.
I’m sorry, I thought you were being a gentleman and opening the door. I apologize profusely for ever thinking that, so don’t hesitate like you were giving me the right of way. I would have opened my own door, because I usually do. Men don’t do that for women too much any more. Sorry about the genital thing. Next time drink iced coffee it will feel better. Why I would think someone was being nice in the morning on my way to work is beyond me. Someone must have p*$$ed in both our cheerios today.
i used to believe in holding the door for women, but that went out the window after having a baby. women who do not have a child with them should have the obligation to hold the door for any man who is carrying a child. but then again, its women who havent figured out that they can simply check and put the toilet seat down before they sit on the toilet and fall in.
Wow, your Mother didnt do a very good job of raising you. And in Oklahoma if we need to show you manners it could get ugly. I open the door for pretty much anyone and thank people when they do it for me. Sounds like you need to start drinking your coffee at home before a large gentleman in cowboy boots teaches you manners the old fashion way. My guess is that people at QT don’t like you either.
Can we extend these rules to any double door entry/exit as well as the aisles where one might shop?
What if my cookie hand and my milk hand are the same hand and neither one corresponds to using the door on the right (even though I am right handed)?
Panic Trip……..that is what happens when you visit one of the many 7-Eleven’s here in OKC.
THANK YOU for pointing this out, this is an issue that pisses my off !!! please use the right door!!!
if I open the door for you I will look at you so you know.
I will open a door for a woman and I be damn if a man will just walk through and just cut the lady off and not say a damn thing.
I don’t expect any man to open a door for me, but I love it when they do. In the great state of Texas, I hardly ever have to open a door myself. I miss it.
You use the right door, and I will too.
If you want to be THAT guy, that’s fine with me. I get irritated when people use the wrong side, too.
For 32 years I deliver to Quik Trip can’t say the name of the beverage company. But every time I would try to go through the door someone would cut in front of me. Thinking they would hold the door open, well guess what. I would try to make a point and walk out in front of them and let the door go. Now days when I walk through any door as soon as I’m in I let it go.
I think its sad that we have come to this point. I don’t care who it is, I open the door for someone with a baby (man or woman), with their hands full, and especially the guy that’s bringing my caffiene or beer into the store!!!! Oh, yeah, even myself because I don’t really expect anyone to open it for me. I do like it when it happens though….I just don’t expect it. Have I been stupid about it at times, yeah, probably have but never intentionally and I never will intentionally not open the door for someone that needs it, but its earned and if you expect it, it’s not going happen! You are my equal not my superior.