Starting the day with a bang!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

To friend, again, "And how is his inability to focus our fault?"

Sorry, my fault, I shoulda specified; the friend who pretty much claimed the glass door covered in posters attacked the man and the person who told us the man has an attention problem were two different persons.

[TelephoneAngel]

Once a long time ago i saw a man fall through a plate glass window at a shop, i don't know how, maybe he was leaning on it, it seemed to explode outwards and glass flew everywhere, and then he sat up in the middle of the chaos with a huge spike of glass stuck in the middle of his face, and people such as myself were running towards him in slow motion (it seemed to take an awfully long time to get to him from the other side of the street) and yelling at him to leave the glass in his face as pulling it out would cause more damage.

He dazed himself very badly and was bleeding elsewhere on his body, the blood was all over his tshirt.

It remains one of the most frighteneing accidents i have witnessed.

[Imogene]

I got an update on that, Juwl, turns out he's really distracted. Crashed his bike in parked cars and everything.

At this point I'd suggest he be accompanied at all time. He's gonna kill himself.

To friend, again, "And how is his inability to focus our fault?"

[fireheart]

For some reason, I pictured a bomb scare.

The last "BOOM" we had that I can recall was when an entire shelf of wine just fell over in the middle of my old store's liquor section.

"It was falling over....then it just fell over" pretty much sums it up.

Complete with nice big BOOM!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I got an update on that, Juwl, turns out he's really distracted. Crashed his bike in parked cars and everything.

At this point I'd suggest he be accompanied at all time. He's gonna kill himself.

[Imogene]

A friend of the customer showed up and said it wasn't the customer's fault.

*eyebrow quirk* "Wasn't it?"
... "WASN'T it?"

[Megg]

I have walked into a glass door before, at my house, even. See, we used to have this dog, a boxer, who liked to lick the door. It was so gross, but there was always a layer of dog slobber on the door, no matter how many times a day we cleaned it. We got to the point we would just leave it open, so we didn't have to look at it, plus so the dog couldn't get to it as easily. I am sure you see where this is going ... one day, someone washed the glass, and I assumed the door was just open. It hurt, but I didn't break it! I cannot even imagine how embarrassed that poor guy was! I almost feel bad for !

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Now now Magpie, don't try to bring common sense into this.
If customers would use it, we wouldn't have this forum.

[Magpie]

I lean towards Aethian's explanation, guy probably thought it was an automatic door and found out it wasn't. Still, heck of way to start your day.

See, even if he thought it was automatic, what the heck was he doing walking into it? You can see when the doors open, and most people learn fairly young that you need to slow down as you approach the doors or else you'll walk into them. Now, I recognise that some people have enough patience as adults that they regularly walk at a speed which doesn't require them to slow down, but you'd expect that the rule of "watch to make sure that the door is indeed open" would still apply.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

If there's no handle, signs or even light reflection or visible fingerprints then it looks like there's nothing there, just an open space.

We had signs and while they're the size of an 8.5X11 paper, there were many and spread out.

But they were at eye level and this customer was looking at the floor when he hit the glass.

Right now we replaced the door, boss-boss took my suggestion and we got a line of red tape across the door (since we lost our flyers, obviously...). Let's hope it's enough until we get new papers printed and posted.

[XCashier]

Which begs the question, why would anyone think that you could even enter that way? Does it look like a Magic Portal?

If there's no handle, signs or even light reflection or visible fingerprints then it looks like there's nothing there, just an open space.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I lean towards Aethian's explanation, guy probably thought it was an automatic door and found out it wasn't.

It's still plausible despite none of the doors inside this mall being, or have ever been, automatic.
Since customers regularly mistake us with our competitor or our grocery store for the one across the bridge, I would not be surprised at all if he thought our giant wall of a door was automatic.

[r2cagle]

It does happen, especially if said glass door is perfectly clear and has no signs, handles, visible frame or anything indicating that it is indeed a closed door.

Which begs the question, why would anyone think that you could even enter that way? Does it look like a Magic Portal? I lean towards Aethian's explanation, guy probably thought it was an automatic door and found out it wasn't. Still, heck of way to start your day.

I just sit in awe of all you members that get to witness this stuff. My life seems so boring in comparison.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Do you mean concussion?

Yeah sorry, my bad, I used the french word. I'll go change it.

Perhaps the gentleman was just very confused. Or very determined.

He was walking at a brisk pace and had his head down, so I'd go for determined.
I bet he would have seen the posters if he had bothered to look UP.

We open 30 minutes after our sister store downstairs so I guess he thought we open at the same time...

Our doors aren't even automatic, I have to pull and push on them like a maniac every morning and every night.

[Aethian]

I walked into a door once...didn't crash into it but walked into it. See if had been a self operating one but somehow it had gotten turned off.

Got laughed at all day for walking into it.