I never expected my coworker to see *that*...

[desh]

OK, help settle a ridiculously overanalyzed debate at work.

Assume you wish to enter a restroom you know to be a single-person restroom not restricted to any particular gender. The door is closed and you can't easily ascertain whether the light's on, and therefore whether someone's in it, or whether the door was just accidentally closed. Assuming the following additional information, do do you test the handle to see if it's locked (and open the door if it's not), or do you knock first (and then test the handle if you don't hear an answer)?

[Poll #1511654]

Comments

[arie]

I *always* knock in any situation where it's not obvious whether or not the restroom is occupied. Someone else can do whatever they want when they're the person who wants to go to the bathroom, but *I'm* going to knock before I accidentally walk in on someone on the can because I tried the knob instead of knocking.