When you enter a building and there’s a revolving door, you:
A. Always use the revolving door. Why?
B. Never use the revolving door, always push open the regular door next to it. Why?
Not a poll because I don’t care about the proportions, I only care about the reasons.
They’re more environmentally friendly, so I tend to use them. I would rather use a real door, however. If both are conveniently located, I’d say I use the revolving door about 75% of the time.
Almost always the revolving door, because I remember working at a front desk and how much I hated being blasted by cold air when the regular door was opened. Well, in the winter. I guess it wasn’t as much of an issue in the summer.
If I am using the regular door, it is because I am pushing a baby stroller or maybe carrying something unwieldy that makes it hard to operate the revolving door.
Almost always the revolving door, for the reasons stated above.
The great exception to this is one of those gigantic, slow-moving revolving doors that takes forever to get through. About half of the time I’ll use the sliding door instead.
I always use the revolving door, unless I am towing a cart. People who use regular doors in venues where there are revolving doors are jerks. It’s a pet peeve. My favorite theater, Chicago’s River East 21, has one revolving door and two sets of regular doors, and all these special snowflakes who can’t figure out how to work a revolving door wind up freezing people in the theater lobby three floors up.
I use the revolving door because I think they’re fun.
Me too!
At work, I always use the revolving door as that’s the only option - we use them as security mantraps. There are some standard doors as well, but they’re emergency exit only with instant alarms.
One of the hospitals near here has an immense automatic revolving door at the main entrance. You can push someone in a wheelchair through it, and it would not surprise me if you could get a gurney through it.
Now ladies come ladies go out my revolving door
Some ladies never come back most come back for more
I’ve got a house in the hills with a door that spins
Goes in and out out and in round and round again
Me three! I feel like it’s a ride. Wheee!
Generally the weather is not an issue in LA. The only time I think to use the revolving door is if I see someone coming from the other direction, and I don’t feel like getting caught up in one of those awkward door-holding dances we humans tend to do sometimes.
I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen a revolving door… I’d use it, though- fun!
I wonder if this describes a lot of people, maybe suburbanites? Every now and then I see families that don’t look like city folk, and the kids always have to play with a revolving door. It’s pretty annoying.
Ditto! It was just a bonus when I found out that it makes a building more energy efficient. That way I can pretend it’s not because using one makes me feel like a carefree eight year old.
As much as I love a revolving door, those horrifying cheese slicing contraptions as you exit the NY subway strike fear in my heart, even though they’re essentially the same technology.
Bingo. Especially big, heavy ones with some momentum to them, and room for more than one person in a slot. (The efficiency thing is nice, too, I guess.)
My sister-in-law, on the other hand, hates and fears revolving doors and will go out of her way to avoid one.
Thanks for joining. I always use them if they’re there, because they are there to prevent drafts.The building I go into every morning has a sign on the regular door that says “Please use the revolving door” yet 3/4 of the people plow through the regular door anyway. I wish more restaurants would have them, because I hate getting a blast of cold air when someone holds the door open for six people to come in.
Regarding people who have never seen one, I find that odd. I see them only in the city, except for one restaurant in Merrifield that has one. In the city lots of hotels and many office buildings have them. But I figured even most suburbanites and ruralites have been in a city at one time or another.
It depends.
If the weather is mild (outside temp is very near inside temp) then I’ll use the regular door.
If the temperature difference is large, then I’m more likely to use the revolving door.
I regularly frequent a building with a revolving door but stopped using it because the regular door adjacent to it allows a faster entry/exit.
Revolving door as long as it automatic.
I saw one revolving door accident over twenty years ago. Somebody was getting crushed on one side, and an oblivious git with headphones on the other side was pushing harder and harder, because the door was “stuck”.
I never use them, nor allow my daughter to.