You Know You Are Old When

[MossRoad]

I understand what you are saying, yet I do it for everyone. It just doesn't seem right to let it slam in somebody's face.

Yep. For the most part if I get to a door before someone else, I hold the door for them regardless of age, sex, etc...

9 time out of 10, if it's a double vestibule door, they'll go in and return the favor on the 2nd door.

 

[WinterDeere]

Maybe I live in a sheltered conservative corner of the world, but I've never had anyone not thankful for me holding the door for them. If I ever did, I'd just tell them I did it because they're a person, not just because they're female.

Other than old ladies and vets, I usually go thru the door first, and then hold it open while I wait for them to grab it. Old ladies and anyone wearing a veteran's hat get to go thru first.

 

[Oaktree]

She opened her coat. I looked.
I said you ruined the best thing I had ever seen.
She never spoke to me again.
Saved me money as she had been the main thing I used to go see.

I don't get it either, but you'd be surprised at the things some people are self-conscious about.

Chair and car door is for someone you know and care for, not just random people.. You would not do that for an elderly relative?

Well, in what remains of my family I am the elderly relative, and I'm perfectly capable. My mother, when she was still with us was equally adamant that if she wanted help she'd ask for it.

 

[Alan46]

Had no intention to offend. How?

Sorry I must have misunderstood your comment .
What I didn’t add to my comment was that I was older than that couple!

 

[not2old]

Maybe I live in a sheltered conservative corner of the world, but I've never had anyone not thankful for me holding the door for them. If I ever did, I'd just tell them I did it because they're a person, not just because they're female.

Other than old ladies and vets, I usually go thru the door first, and then hold it open while I wait for them to grab it. Old ladies and anyone wearing a veteran's hat get to go thru first.

I do the same thing. When women hold the door and let me go first, I tell them "gee, do I really look that old". It usually gets a chuckle from them.

 

[airbiscuit]

It's hell to grow old,
when the weather turns cold,
and the head of your pecker turns blue.

And you go take a piddle
and it bends in the middle.
Don't laugh, it'll happen to you!

 

[Eagle1]

I do the same thing. When women hold the door and let me go first, I tell them "gee, do I really look that old". It usually gets a chuckle from them.

I just say thank you.....

 

[ultrarunner]

At work I've gained alot of fans in the patient population from my 5:30 am to 7 am in the front lobby...

It's nothing special other than greeting the person signing in, walking them to the admit area and seating them and then holding the door as the patient is taken by the nurse to pre-op.

Men and women 99% positive and I try to lighten the stress a notch which helps at 5:30 in the morning.

Confirming they are at the right place and saying I have immediate seating available and pulling out the chair, etc... while saying it's part of our concierge service.

It's the small things people remember and I try to make a stressful situation a little less stressful or in other words let the patients know they are in good hands...

With Cataract patients the follow-up for the other eye is often 2 to 3 weeks later... so feedback is common.

Walking into a hospital for surgery early in the morning is stressful enough and the figuring out where you need to be and dealing with ID and Insurance, etc...

I know I'm old because I now find myself older than a lot of our patients... wasn't that way 33 years ago plus I'm seeing people I went to elementary and high school coming in... before it was just our teachers...

 

[Oaktree]

At work I've gained alot of fans in the patient population from my 5:30 am to 7 am in the front lobby...

It's nothing special other than greeting the person signing in, walking them to the admit area and seating them and then holding the door as the patient is taken by the nurse to pre-op.

Men and women 99% positive and I try to lighten the stress a notch which helps at 5:30 in the morning.

Confirming they are at the right place and saying I have immediate seating available and pulling out the chair, etc... while saying it's part of our concierge service.

Did you change jobs? I was always under the impression that you did plant maintenance.

 

[ultrarunner]

Did you change jobs? I was always under the impression that you did plant maintenance.

Hired as Director of Engineering and over the course or mergers and acquisitions my roles have expanded and contracted…

At one time I branched into patient care when we had the first Femtosecond laser for Cataract on the West Coast and I was the first certified.

During the pandemic Security was added under Facilities which included screening to enter.

Starting at 4 am made me highest from management onsite during the very early morning hours and able to address transient population caused issues affecting operations.

From 5:30 am to 7 am I’m at the front desk and actually enjoy it and as long as I have network access it works for me.

At 5 am I do external security sweep and take report from after hours contract security… mostly clearing doorways of people camping and their belongings and tagging problem vehicles.

4 am it’s the steam boilers, vacuum pumps, medical gas, etc…

Upgrading HVAC is the project that has taken a life of its own.

Much of contract administration and purchasing now goes through corp headquarters post last merger.

I’ve had some nice wins outside engineering such as appealing a county tax assessment saving the hospital over 50k annually, slashed our medical gas expenditures by 50% and cut uniform and linen expense by 55% simply through management…