My new hobby is watching people failing to enter a building

[BrenDAnn]

I love watching people fail to enter or exit the C-store. Yes, I said that. We have double doors. Sometimes, we have to lock one of them--for instance, just this last week, Mother Nature decided it was a good idea to break the bottom hinge on one of them. We always put a sign up when we lock the door, not that anyone reads signs. It's amusing to watch people tug and pull on the door trying to get in. even more amusing is watching people try to go out the locked door. I've seen people slam against it as they would if it were unlocked, only to go *THUMP* against the door and look at it with a blank look before exiting through the unlocked door. For some reason, the manager thought it was a good idea to put something in front of the locked door, inside the store, to prevent this. Took half my entertainment away!

[MoonCat]

In my experience, when entering the building the left had door is usually locked and the right hand door is open. If the locked door is not blocked and can be opened from the inside with out a key via a panic bar, it is most likely not a code issue.

OK, probably true. But I still don't understand why someone would have one of those double doors locked at all.

[Argus]

Nothing wrong with pulling on a push door. Just one of those things. Now, if you keep it up for longer than, say, forty seconds...

One time, I ended up pushing on a pull door several times. I made an attempt, looked again at the door and saw the letters P U S H going down, tried again, looked again at the door to confirm what I had seen, and made one more attempt. This time when I looked, I noticed that the "P" and "S" were backwards; the PUSH label was a see-through sticker on the glass.