Here is a quick little example. This happened last weekend. I was at an SA (That's Super America. For some reason normal convenience stores--7-Eleven, Circle K, Wawa, AMPM, Casey's, etc.--don't exist in Minnesota. There are only two chains (plus one weird other one), Super America and Holiday. Super America is just the Minnesota version of 7-Eleven.)
The doors were two glass doors that swing outward, normal. They even had a doorjamb down the middle, so it was actually two separate doors, not a single double door. I had made my purchase and was heading out. As I'm approaching the doors, this guy, in his 30s, wearing one of those hunting camouflage jackets, comes up to the doors from the outside. He grabs the left door (from my point of view) and pulls it open to enter. So I push on the right door and head out that door to the parking lot. This guy, rather than going through his own entirely separate door that has no relationship to my door whatever, STANDS BACK and ostentatiously waits for me to finish going through my door before he continues through his.
This very subtle kind of thing is the reason I'm doing this blog. A stranger might notice little stuff like this, but would just have this vague sense of unease. I want to point out these things so you understand what assholes these people are. This guy was NOT standing aside to let me through first. We had separate doors. What he was doing was standing back to show me that I'm being rude and that he is being inconvenienced by my rudeness but he's the polite one so he's going to stand aside until I come through. It's important to see that he didn't do it because he's polite. He did it to be an asshole. And on top of that, the situation didn't even exist, we had separate doors.
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