Social Mores - (Pr. MORE-A’s) Society’s basic practices and customs.
What I like, is when two or more of these mores collide. The best scenario I can think of is at an entrance to a restaurant.
We all know the easiest way to be all “Who’s got two thumbs and is a decent human being?” in public is to hold the door for someone as you proceed to enter wherever it is fate has deemed you to go on that day. But what about when this coincides with something else we’ve been developed as we grow up? A disdain for waiting in lines?
When we’re out and about, just doing our thang, most of us try to be the best us we can be. That is, until we get hungry. The blood sugar drops and the snubbery comes out to play. We will not hold a door for someone else at a restaurant.
No matter what your buffer zone for holding a door is, that all goes out the window when it’s time to nosh. Right? Peoplekind has decided waiting in lines sucks more than being thought of as rude by random stranger # PX3-447228H9. So even if they’re within the 3 to 7 step radius behind us that typically warrants door-holding, we don’t. Because if we do, they’ll be in front of us in line for food. We may do the whole hold the door from the inside move so as to say “come on in, but know you’re next in line”.
I don’t know if there’s a solution to this scenario. Folkways are what they is. And as long as we’re hungry, you’re gonna have to let yourself in. It’s your punishment for being mere seconds slower than me.
But what do I know? I’m just a button pusher. (with a Twitter account)