How to open a glass door
By koopharper
@koopharper (7599)
Canada
November 8, 2017 3:17am CST
On a glass door, you will find a handle or a bar which you can use to push or pull the door open as appropriate. Why do people insist on putting their hand on the glass and pushing?
I know I have to clean the burger juice off when someone does that where I work, so I'm obviously biased. However, I know a woman who literally ended her sporting career putting her arm through one of those glass doors and suffering horrible lacerations. I have a younger brother who stuck his arm through a pane of glass with similar results.
Please take my advice and don't push on the glass.
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12 responses
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
Most of the glass doors are made with a tempered safety glass that will burst into little crystals instead of long jagged shards. I remember as a teenager when the local merchants son went through a glass door when he spotted his young nephew toddling out onto the road. He didn't bother to open the door...just right through the glass.
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@LilyBeBack (1994)
• United Kingdom
8 Nov 17
You know you love someone when you burst through a glass door to save them 
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
Hard to tell the difference between tempered and untempered. Still, you've got a valid point. Ours at work are probably tempered and quite thick at that.
@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
@LilyBeBack I could see myself doing that. Probably lead with my size thirteens though.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
When my brother did it. We saw the result and it wasn't pretty. My poor mom who grabbed the neighbour across the street to bring him to the hospital. One of my other brothers and I followed the trail through the grass to find out where he did it.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
9 Nov 17
@LadyDuck I think he was lucky and didn't suffer and neurological damage. I was an ugly wound though.
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@LadyDuck (502208)
• Italy
9 Nov 17
@koopharper I know, the shards of glass cause very deep cuts and there is a lot of blood.
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I don't really notice how i open a glass door@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
9 Nov 17
@koopharper thanks you for this information, i will keep it in mind 
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
They really aren't that easy to break usually but it can happen and yes the injuries can be scary.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Nov 17
I clean glass doors on businesses when we do their windows on a monthly basis. Sometimes I'll leave the doors for the end so they still look good when we leave. I don't know why people still push on the glass instead of using the handles that are there for a purpose either, but I'm sure it will still be a problem in the future.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
9 Nov 17
You can find a lot of Youtube videos showing people walking into glass doors. It happens quite a lot.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
I'm surprised an accident like that doesn't happen more frequently. Glad I could help.
@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
8 Nov 17
I work with mentally handicapped people and people with physical limitations. We have glass doors within some of our hallways. My young lady will push on the side where she is supposed to with one hand, but always pushes right in the middle of the glass with her other hand. I think it is a balance and strength issue for her. It is not something I can argue her out of.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
I can see that. If the windows are tempered as Morley Hunt pointed out it might not be an issue.
@toniganzon (77084)
• Philippines
9 Nov 17
I don't push the glass at all and I won't ever do it.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
9 Nov 17
I generally won't either. Even if it's strong tempered glass, I'd rather use the handle.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
they must be pushing really hard for the glass to break and cut them.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
Depends on the glass. There are some old-fashioned style glass doors that have very thin glass in them.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
Job security. I've actually had a customer hold the inner door (which I just cleaned) with his greasy paw so that I could come back in after cleaning the outer door. I also believe I've cleaned the same door window three times within ten minutes.
@teamfreak16 (43573)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Nov 17
I'm going to admit that I do sometimes push on the glass. Sometimes.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
9 Nov 17
Just don't eat something really greasy first.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
This is good advice but let robbers hold the glass so they will be caught.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
8 Nov 17
We need a kind of snare glass for robbers. Something that'll catch on their clothes to keep them from getting away. 
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