To wonder why I always pull doors that blatantly say "Push" and vice versa?

[Salmotrutta]

Every blooming time.

I go into/out of a shop.

The door tell me what to do - and I always do the opposite

Must be my anarchist streak...

My local shop has "pull" on a door that clearly should say "push", would you get it right or get so confused we'd find you crying in a heap?

Crying heap most likely!

I'm the same, Salmo. Must be my truculent personality.

I do this all the time too and always feel a right plum and normally someone watching

I always seem to try the one in a pair that for some reason, is locked. Why have a door that doesnt bloody well open?! Grrr

me too. Every time.

I was at college for 2 years, i was still doing it with the same door in the last week of the course.

I am so glad its not just me, over the years I have learnt to really look where I am going and what it says to do on the door! still get it wrong sometimes though. I have also been known to get locked in public loos because door locks just seem to jamb and not work properly whenever I am near them.. I feel its just a conspiracy.

Wagamammas near the British Museum used to have sign that said "push it, push it real good" which always made me smile.

Every time one of us gets it wrong, the other person mutters "school for the gifted..." It's from a Gary Larson cartoon

Ah yes... Midvale School for the Gifted :o

It's your inner rebel, refusing to live by the rules and taking on the world (and its doors) on your own terms.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

It is a hazard for me I have to admit - I lived in Brazil and the word for push is empurre, but the word for pull is puxe (pronounced push-e)

I read it, hear push-e in my head and walk flat into the door. It takes an enormous amount of self control to counteract it.

I feel your pain. Often

My granddad used to shout "Never ever pull, ma, PUSH" or vice versa, depending.

DH thinks I am odd, as I can't help doing the same!

Ah soup you beat me to it Used to sell loads of that card and mug.

So glad it's not just me!

It's not you, it's the design. Apparently.....the theory is if a door is designed to be opened by 'pulling' then it shouldn't really need a sign saying 'pull', the item should have the affordance so that's it's obvious what action you need to take i.e a plate on a door affords itself to 'push'.

Or it could just be you

Since I didn't understand your explanation NoMono I think it's safe to say its me.

If it has a handle, you pull.
If it has a flat plate, you push.

If you look at the Midvale door, it has a handle and thus it should be obvious that you need to pull.

But those posh shop doors have both, cos the doors do both.... and so have both 'affordances' on each side of the door!

Talk about making life difficult!

Hah! What if it has a flat plate and a handle?!

Eh?

X-post!

I only frequent posh shops. Obvs.

I was only explaining what NuMonoaural had said.

It's a good place to start if you need to make a guess but it's not foolproof.

I find a very gentle push before you make your decision hides the fact that you might be an idiot.

Some time ago one of my bosses wrote on my annual appraisal "this person will go through life pushing doors marked pull" needless to say I didn't stay working for him much longer after that

cheeky beggar Muskey

I've given up trying to not look like an idiot Soup

I do this sometimes too. My mum has a hoover with two buttons. The drew an arrow next to the on button, as the other button is for some minor function. For some reason I feel the need to avoid the button with the arrow.

I also can't read widgets, or visual instructions. I have no idea what they are supposed to be telling me. A few years ago the Coffee machine at Legoland nearly made me cry as the instructions were pictures, and I had no idea what I was supposed to do!