Ever Shambling Onwards...

Occasionally during your time at university you may be confronted by holes in walls which are filled by large slabs of wood with small glass panels in them. Confounding as it may seem, these large slabs of wood are usually hinged along one side, and are commonly referred to as doors.

Sometimes, when you wish to reach an area which is on the other side of one of these slabs you may need to either push or pull the wooden slab, causing it to rotate around the hinged side until it no longer fills the hole in the wall. Merely standing in front of the wooden slab will rarely have the desired effect, which can also be said for peering through the small glass panel.

Although the latter of these two actions does allow you to see your objective, it does not allow you access to it. Either of these ineffective actions also has the downside that whilst performing them, you may well be preventing another potential door user from achieveing their desired goal as your body will be preventing the door from rotating freely about its hinged side.

In certain situations you may find that there are two wooden slabs filling a larger hole in the wall. In these situations, when one of the slabs has been rotated, but a steady stream of people are moving through the gap created, preventing you from doing so, you may be able to open the other wooden slab to provide enough space for a second stream of people to move through. Bearing this in mind, it is probably wise to avoid standing right next to this second slab unless you intend to open it, otherwise you may be preventing other potential door users from rotating it themselves.

This has been a public service announcement, funded solely by people who use doors.

...since I did one of these:

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