Push vs. Pull

[Ironclad Alibi]

OK, OK. I'll admit it. I pushed on a door that said pull. Mrs. IA had to tell me to pull.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

You're not by yourself.

Even worse is when it happened in front of my Mom - and I'm always complaining to her about stupid folk.

[dalesys]

Welcome to the alumni of the Midvale e-dumbication graduates,

Only, when I went it was a plain old Junior High School not the high-falutin' "School For The Gifted".
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[Mikkel]

I pushed on a door that said push.

Well then, you proved that you can follow instructions. Why did it say push when you had to pull?

[Aislin]

There is a photo studio here in town where both sides of the door say push. When'll they changed the hinges in 1970? Or so and left the door hands and door because they are historic. Yeah I walled into that door and bounced off.

[KatherineB]

OK, OK. I'll admit it. I pushed on a door that said push. Mrs. IA had to tell me to pull.

Well, the Doctor does it all the time. Why shouldn't you?

[Ironclad Alibi]

Well then, you proved that you can follow instructions. Why did it say push when you had to pull?

Well, the Doctor does it all the time. Why shouldn't you?

I fixed the wrong wording. That made two brain burps.

[Argus]

One time, I looked at a glass door for a restaurant I was about to enter, saw the letters "P" "U" "S" "H" in a vertical line, and pushed to no effect. The restaurant was active at the time, I double-checked the letters, and pushed again. It still didn't work. I then looked at the stick-on letters more closely and realized that the "P" and the "S" were backwards.

[sms001]

I then looked at the stick-on letters more closely and realized that the "P" and the "S" were backwards.

Too funny!


Count me in the group too. And to add real insult to injury, of course, is the fact that the doors to almost all public places in the U.S. open outwards, so it takes havin' a real special day to forget that.

[mathnerd]

I constantly have to make a fist out of my left hand when reading stuff on glass doors to remind myself of which way to read letters. My brain does not distinguish letter orientation on it's own. Backwards, forwards, upside down, in a mirror, the other side of glass, whatever, it all looks the same to me. With no context clues, I can't immediately figure out the difference between "on" and "no".

All that to say that yes, I am that moron who walks into glass doors on a regular basis.

[Kit-Ginevra]

In Portugal,puxe(pronounced Push)=pull