I guess it depends on one’s personal flavor of laziness. Myself, I’d rather suck it in than walk three steps.
I do live in NYC, so I don’t know how this could be a regional thing, VarlosZ.
As for boob threads, I won’t deny that I talk about my boobs fairly regularly, but I think this is a bit of confirmation bias. I have almost 3,000posts and over 120 threads, the large majority of which don’t mention my breastsat all. I talk about insurance and NYC a lot too, so much so that I have had several dopers PM me for insurance advice or advice about things in NYC, but I bet most of you wouldn’t have remembered where I live or what I do for a living.
Try “sexy” and “gorgeous” and “rack” and “tits” and “I live in NY and I’m so hot that I get hit on and/or asked on dates and/or phone numbers thrown at me almost every single day!”
I think you’re missing the point. From what I understand, everyone on the elevator was getting off at the same floor.
That’s what she said!
In your face, Frylock! 
But what has that to do with your tits?
People who get on an elevator first are required to carry an inflated whoopie cushion. When used properly, you can be assured everyone in front of you with disembark from the elevator in record time.
Ditto. I think you’ll find this kind of courtesy in large office buildings where people are always taking elevators. In NY, the only complaints I hear is when men don’t show the courtesy that we do. The only exception would be in a situation where it’s not logistically feasible, as in ppbth’s example. The Miss Manners advice is just plain stupid.
Huh. I still don’t get it. Do women actually like this practice? I’d be fucking *mortified *if people were standing around so I could walk ahead of them because of my gender. Doesn’t it imply, on some level, that you are not peers?
This is different, but still strikes me as a little odd. My 12 year old brother does this any time he gets off the elevator at the lobby, but no one on the elevator is in danger of being hit by the door, and more often than not he’s getting in the way of the people waiting to get both on and off the elevator. Isn’t it more polite to quickly and quietly ensure that you’re not a physical hindrance to the people around you?
Are you one of the people who put half of their body (hand, arm, shoulder, little bit of torso) into the doorway and call it ‘holding the door.’ Because that shit is so annoying, especially when there’s a button that does that.
There’s an elevator where I work and people hold the door way too fucking much, really slowing down the turn-around time.
They also do the ‘no, you first’ bullshit that the OP is talking about. Just get on or off! Don’t they realize it’s rude to the people on the other floors?
Man, I miss New Jersey.
Fuck it, while we’re here:
They also ‘hold open’ every fucking door in every fucking building every fucking time they walk through it. Even when it means they’re blocking the doorway with their arm. WTF? It would be more helpful if you kept walking! They also hold it open if I’m still 20 feet from the doorway, so then I’m obliged to do a little jog so they don’t stand there like idiots because I’m a slow walker. Just go through the fucking doorway!
I’m know I’m overreacting, but this has been bugging me for a while.
I read the title as Stupid Chivalrous Mormons. Oops.
I have no interest on piling on the OP, and I actually understand the phenomenon of which she speaks. Some men have the idea that it is rude to get off an elevator before a women. These men carry this idea to an absurd length. They are in a crowded elevator, in front of the woman, that is, nearer to the door, and instead of getting the fuck off the elevator, thus making things easier for everyone, they squeeze themselves to the sides, making a barely negotiable path so the woman can get off first. This, I agree, is not chivalrous, but infuriatingly stupid.
And no, Miss Manners does not encourage this.
Monstera,
who used to work in NYC, has a pretty, albeit middle-aged face, a nice rack and a considerable amount of junk in the trunk.
This happens in NYC all the time and frequently the elevators themselves are not what you would think of as ‘full sized’. The men are being idiots.
Yes, but given a choice of sources for insurance advice, the average male doper requiring same will PM the source with the biggest breasts.
Don’t forget 'I am so sexy hot and awesome and I live in NYC where I met my new boyfriend who loves my gorgeous rack of tits because he hit on me and threw his phone number at me every single day on the streets and subways of NYC until I agreed to share my boobs with him."
I’ve heard this song before, and it goes …
How about some validation, please?
Sorry, I missed all that. I was staring at your boobs.
And yes, I let you out of the elevator first so I could watch your ass. These are the things which help me get through the long days.
That’s what she said, heh heh heh!
I don’t think I quite have the hang of that yet.
These reminds me of the Jim Carrey movie where he couldn’t lie. (Liar Liar? not sure of the title). When a woman with huge tracts of land tells him how nice everyone is he says “Yeah, thats 'cuz you have big boobs!”.
I used to work with a girl that was…um, blessed with impressive huge tracts of land. We were friends. She told me how much she hated it that no one ever looked her in the eye when speaking to her. Trust me, it wasn’t easy to do. I trained myself to focus on the top of her head when I spoke to her. (which didn’t help the day she grabbed 'em both in front of me and said she’d enjoy running if "I didn’t have these giant things hanging off of my chest bouncing around!")
I had to go home and take an extremely cold shower.
For the record, I think you should feel free to talk about your boobs whenever you want to.
Nah, those would be the neighbors of a lesbian acquaintance of ours who asked her if she would be offended if they put up a “Yes on Proposition 8” yard sign.